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!DVENTIST #HURCH MOVES TO STRENGTHEN GLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS N 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS SHOULD PARTNER WITH OTHER HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS IN OFFERING PRIMARY HEALTH CARE GLOBALLY A REQUEST THAT URGES THE DENOMINATION S MEMBERS AND INSTITUTIONS TO SHED INDIVIDUALISTIC APPROACHES TO OFFERING CARE IN COMMUNITIES 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE PRESIDENT *AN 0AULSEN SAID *ULY 0AULSEN S REMARKS CAME ON THE OPENING DAY OF A GLOBAL HEALTH CONFERENCE WHICH IS EXPLORING WAYS TO ACHIEVE PUBLIC HEALTH GOALS THROUGH
PARTNERSHIPS AND THE ROLE FAITH BASED ORGANIZATIONS &"/S PLAY IN SUCH AN EFFORT #HURCH HEALTH LEADERS ALSO HOPE TO DEMONSTRATE THE ROLE SPIRITUALITY AND WHOLISTIC LIVING CAN PLAY IN PRIMARY CARE AND lND COMMON GROUND WHEN WORKING WITH PARTNERS &OR THE FULL TEXT OF 0AULSEN S REMARKS SEE PAGES IN THIS ISSUE 2ECENTLY THE 7ORLD (EALTH /RGANIZATION 7(/ A 5NITED .ATIONS AGENCY HAS SOUGHT TO BOLSTER PARTNERSHIPS WITH &"/S WHICH DELIVER
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FUNDING AND SUPPORTING PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH CARE THROUGH ITS NETWORK OF MORE THAN HOSPITALS CLINICS AND DISPENSARIES 4HE DENOMINATION S YEAR HEALTH FOCUS ALSO EMPHASIZES HEALTH EDUCATION ADVOCACY OF VEGETARIANISM AND LIVING ALCOHOL AND DRUG FREE 0AULSEN ALSO ADDRESSED CONCERNS THAT PARTNERSHIPS WOULD BE AT ODDS WITH THE CHURCH S MISSION SAYING h3OME HAVE BEEN CRITICAL AND RIGHTLY SO OF AN ESCHATOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE THAT SERVES SIMPLY TO RECONCILE US TO CURRENT MISERIES !WAITING ;#HRIST S RETURN= IS NOT A PASSIVE EXERCISE BUT SOMETHING THAT DEMANDS ACTION ;IN= THE PRESENT v 4HE CHURCH S EMPHASIS ON HEALTH 0AULSEN SAID SHOULD NOT JUST BE ONE OF TREATING DISEASE DElNING WHAT IS HEALTHFUL TO EAT OR DRINK OR THE TRAINING OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS h/UR APPROACH TO HEALTH IS A CONCEPT THAT ENCOMPASSES ALL THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE FULLNESS AND COMPLETENESS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE v HE SAID ! 7(/ OFlCER NOTED THAT THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH IN THE PAST HAS SOMETIMES ACTED IN A CLOSED CHURCH S APPROACH TO PRIMARY CARE MANNER BUT SAID HE WELCOMED THE h!N INDIVIDUALISTIC INWARD LOOKING PARTNERSHIP CONCEPTION OF #HRISTIANITY IS UTTERLY h) THINK THE !DVENTIST #HURCH IS AT ODDS WITH THE 3AVIOR WHO REACHED READY FOR OFlCIAL RELATIONS WITH US v OUT TO RESTORE BLIND MEN S EYES CURED SAID 4ED +ARPF AN OFlCER WITH THE LEPERS AND HEALED AN EMOTIONALLY $EPARTMENT OF 0ARTNERSHIPS AND BROKEN WOMAN v 0AULSEN SAID h7E 5. 2EFORM AT THE 7ORLD (EALTH CANNOT EXPRESS OUR FAITH OUR DESIRE TO /RGANIZATION IMITATE #HRIST IN SECLUSION v h4HE CHURCH IS HERE AS PARTNERS 0AULSEN SPOKE TO SOME WORLD TO BEGIN WITH SO SOME CHANGE HAS CHURCH LEADERS IN A PACKED LECTURE HALL HAPPENED ALREADY v +ARPF SAID AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF 'ENEVA THE SITE OF !DDRESSING THE GATHERING *EAN THE CONFERENCE $UFF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE #ENTER $URING HIS HALF HOUR SPEECH FOR )NTERFAITH !CTION ON 'LOBAL 0AULSEN SAID THE CHURCH WOULD 0OVERTY RECOGNIZED THE !DVENTIST CONTINUE TO PRIORITIZE FACILITATING #HURCH AS hA FAITHFUL PARTNER IN
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MOBILIZING THEIR HEALTH ASSETS AND CONGREGATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURESv TO COLLABORATE IN AN INTERFAITH ANTIMALARIA PROGRAM IN -OZAMBIQUE 3EVERAL OF THE CHURCH S HEALTH MINISTRIES LEADERS SAID THEY WELCOMED 0AULSEN S COMMENTS h) THINK HE SET A NEW DIRECTION v SAID #HESTER +UMA ASSOCIATE (EALTH -INISTRIES DIRECTOR FOR THE CHURCH S 3OUTH 0ACIlC REGION h(E PROVIDED A GREAT CHALLENGE TO THE CHURCH GETTING US BACK TO BASICS )T S A GOOD REMINDER ABOUT COMPASSION AND HELPING THE POOR v %LIE (ONORE (EALTH -INISTRIES DIRECTOR FOR THE CHURCH S )NTER !MERICAN REGION SAID 0AULSEN S COMMENTS WEREN T AIMED ONLY AT CHURCH HEALTH LEADERS BUT AT MANY SEGMENTS OF THE CHURCH h7E HAVE EDUCATION REPRESENTED HERE ;AT THIS CONFERENCE= AND MINISTRY AS WELL AS LEADERSHIP v (ONORE SAID h(E REMINDED US OF THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ASKING 7E RE NOT GOING TO JUST STICK TO IDEAS OR THEORIES BUT OPEN OUR EYES TO THE COMMUNITY AND FULlLL OUR MISSION AS A CHURCH v 4HE 'LOBAL #ONFERENCE ON (EALTH AND ,IFESTYLE CONTINUED THROUGH *ULY /THER SPEAKERS AND WORKSHOP PRESENTERS INCLUDED $AVID 7ILLIAMS PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH AT (ARVARD 5NIVERSITY 3IR -ICHAEL -ARMOT DIRECTOR OF THE )NTERNATIONAL )NSTITUTE FOR 3OCIETY AND (EALTH AND !LEX 2OSS 7(/ DIRECTOR FOR THE 0ROGRAM ON 0ARTNERSHIPS AND 5NITED .ATIONS 2EFORM ˆ2EPORTED BY !NSEL /LIVER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR NEWS 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE OF 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS )N #HINA -ONGOLIA !DVENTIST ,ITERATURE %VANGELISM 4HRIVES N )F #HRISTIANITY IS TO MAKE A CONTINUING IMPACT IN -ONGOLIA AND #HINA LOCAL 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST
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,EFT #/.35,4!4)/. 7ILMAR (IRLE CENTER BRIEFS .ORTHERN !SIA 0ACIFIC $IVISION PUBLISHING STAFF ON BOOK SALES 2IGHT (%!,4( -!'!:).% .ORTHERN !SIA 0ACIlC $IVISION PRESIDENT *AIRYONG ,EE AND PUBLISHING DIRECTOR $AE 3UNG +IM HOLD A COPY OF "EST ,IFE A NEW 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST HEALTH MAGAZINE FOR #HINA
LEADERS SAY THERE S A NEED FOR MORE LITERATURE IN LOCAL LANGUAGES 7ILMAR (IRLE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE S 0UBLISHING -INISTRIES VISITED !DVENTIST LEADERS IN #HINA AND -ONGOLIA RECENTLY IN ORDER TO DISCUSS THE GROWTH OF THE !DVENTIST #HURCH AND ITS INCREASING NEED FOR THE TRANSLATION OF !DVENTIST LITERATURE INTO NATIVE IDIOMS (IRLE MET WITH LOCAL LEADERS IN "EIJING TO QUESTION THEM ABOUT THE GROWTH OF THE !DVENTIST MOVEMENT IN #HINA AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF AN !DVENTIST HEALTH MAGAZINE *AIRYONG ,EE .3$ PRESIDENT AND $AE 3UNG +IM .3$ PUBLISHING DIRECTOR DESCRIBED THE CURRENT SITUATION h#HINA IS A GREAT COUNTRY IN MANY WAYS v SAID ,EE h)T IS THE LARGEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IN TERMS OF POPULATION (OWEVER IT IS ALSO THE MOST CHALLENGING COUNTRY AS FAR AS OUR !DVENTIST MISSION IS CONCERNED BECAUSE OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION ) CAN SEE TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL FOR THE WORK OF THE !DVENTIST #HURCH v !CCORDING TO $AVID .G +OK (OE #HINESE 5NION -ISSION PUBLISHING DIRECTOR THERE ARE NEARLY !DVENTIST MEMBERS IN #HINA BEING
LED BY PASTORS 4HERE ARE NO CONFERENCES OR UNIONS BUT SIMPLY PARENT DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER CHURCHES /UT OF THE MORE THAN BILLION PEOPLE LIVING ON EARTH FEWER THAN HALF ARE ABLE TO READ THE !DVENTIST MESSAGE IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE 5NTIL RECENTLY !DVENTISTS IN #HINA HAD NEVER HAD AN OFlCIAL PROGRAM FOR LITERATURE EVANGELISM 4HE h! "OOK FOR *ESUSv PROGRAM WAS CREATED TO REACH THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO READ !DVENTIST LITERATURE h;4HIS= IS A TREMENDOUSLY LARGE PROJECT v (OE SAID h) M SURE IF WE WERE GOING TO DO THIS WITH OUR OWN KNOWLEDGE IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE "UT WE HAVE A BIG WORLDWIDE !DVENTIST FAMILY AND THIS WORLD BELONGS TO 'OD v 3PEAKING WITH (IRLE .3$ PRESIDENT ,EE SAID THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY #HRISTIAN BOOKSTORES IN #HINA AND THEY ARE PLANNING TO OPEN lVE !DVENTIST "OOK #ENTERS IN THE NEAR FUTURE 4HE LEADERS ALSO DISCUSSED THE CREATION OF THE lRST #HINESE !DVENTIST HEALTH MAGAZINE "EST ,IFE !LTHOUGH
THE BEGINNINGS ARE SMALLnONLY COPIES ARE NOW CIRCULATINGˆBOTH THE NEED AND THE POTENTIAL ARE GREAT -ANY OF #HINA S BILLION PEOPLE ARE CONFRONTING POLLUTION STRESS AND CROWDING IN LARGE CITIES -ILLIONS STRUGGLE WITH TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL USE !S A RESULT RELIABLE INFORMATION ON HOW TO ADDRESS HEALTH CONCERNS WILL LIKELY BE OF CONTINUING INTEREST AS THE NATION S DEVELOPMENT MOVES FORWARD /CTOBER SAW THE LAUNCH OF "EST ,IFE AND ,EE SAID THE DIVISION HOPES TO INCREASE THE CIRCULATION TO IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS h7E UNDERSTOOD THERE MAY BE SOME DIFlCULTIES v SAID ,EE hBUT THE ,ORD HAS HELPED US 7HEN WE SAW THE lRST ISSUE OF THE HEALTH MAGAZINE ;COME OFF THE PRESS= WE GAVE THANKS TO THE ,ORD v )N PAST YEARS IT HAS BEEN DIFlCULT TO GET PERMISSION TO PUBLISH FROM THE #HINESE GOVERNMENT PARTICULARLY IN THE CASE OF RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS #HINESE !DVENTIST LEADERS SAY THEY FEEL BLESSED TO HAVE HAD THE COOPERATION OF THE GOVERNMENT WITH "EST ,IFE 2ECENTLY THE DECISION WAS MADE TO PUBLISH THE BOOK ,IFE OF *ESUS AN ABRIDGED VERSION OF 4HE $ESIRE OF !GES IN LARGE QUANTITIES FOR THE #HINESE POPULATION !CCORDING TO (IRLE THE #HINESE PUBLISHING LEADERS ARE HOPING FOR A lRST PRINTING OF MILLION COPIES h) M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROJECT v ,EE SAID h)N #HINA x PREVIOUSLY THEY DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH LITERATURE AND PRINTED MATERIALS )F 3EPTEMBER \ !DVENTIST 7ORLD
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WE CAN PRINT ,IFE OF *ESUS INTO THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS EVEN MILLIONS OF COPIES AND DISTRIBUTE IT THROUGH OUR CHURCH MEMBERS WE WILL HAVE A TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES v (IRLE ALSO TRAVELED TO -ONGOLIA TO DISCUSS THE EVER GROWING NEED FOR LITERATURE EVANGELISM !CCORDING TO 0AUL +OTANKO PRESIDENT OF THE -ONGOLIA MISSION lELD h)N -ONGOLIA THERE ARE ONLY MILLION PEOPLE IN AN AREA SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN THE STATE OF !LASKA 3INCE AND THE END OF #OMMUNISM THERE HAS BEEN A RENEWED INTEREST IN RELIGION 4ODAY UNDER THE -ONGOLIAN CONSTITUTION WHICH PROVIDES FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM #HRISTIANS ACCOUNT FOR ONLY ABOUT PERCENT v 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST BOOKS HAVE NOT YET BEEN TRANSLATED INTO +HALKHA -ONGOL THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY PERCENT OF THE -ONGOLIAN POPULATION !CCORDING TO (IRLE lVE BOOKS INCLUDING 3IGNS OF (OPE BY !DVENTIST EVANGELIST !LEJANDRO "ULL˜N ARE CURRENTLY BEING TRANSLATED INTO THE NATIVE LANGUAGE h4HIS PROJECT WILL BE VERY BENElCIAL v SAID +OTANKO h4HERE IS A GREAT NEED FOR LITERATURE WE CAN PRESENT TO THE PUBLIC 4HE MOST PRESSING NEED IS FOR TRANSLATORS AND EDITORS WHO UNDERSTAND THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST BELIEFS AND TEACHINGS TO TRANSLATE MATERIALS INTO THE -ONGOLIAN LANGUAGE v +OTANKO ALSO SAID THE -ONGOLIAN CHURCH IS MADE UP OF YOUNG ENTHU SIASTIC MEMBERS WHO ARE EAGER TO READ BOOKS PERTAINING TO THE TRUTH OF *ESUS ˆ2EPORTED BY %RICA 2ICHARDS !DVENTIST 7ORLD EDITORIAL INTERN WITH INFORMATION FROM THE 0UBLISHING $EPARTMENT 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE OF 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS
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4HE lRST !DVENTISTS -OSES "OURSALIAN AND HIS FAMILY CAME TO #YPRUS IN AS TENTMAKER STYLE MISSIONARIES -OSES SOLD HOMEMADE COMBS TRAVELING BY DONKEY FROM VILLAGE TO VILLAGE TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT HIS BELIEFS ALONG THE WAY -OSES SON *OHN BECAME THE lRST !DVENTIST LITERATURE EVANGELIST ON THE ISLAND SEVERAL YEARS LATER "Y A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE WORSHIPPED CCORDING TO 'REEK MYTHOLOGY TOGETHER IN .ICOSIA EACH 3ABBATH #YPRUS IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE &OR MANY YEARS NO ORDAINED GODDESS OF LOVE !PHRODITE )N REALITY #YPRUS AN ISLAND NATION IN THE MINISTERS LIVED ON THE ISLAND #HURCH EASTERN -EDITERRANEAN HAS HISTORICALLY LEADERS VISITED ONLY OCCASIONALLY TO CONDUCT BAPTISM AND #OMMUNION BEEN ANYTHING BUT A PLACE OF LOVE AS SERVICES )N #ANADIAN IT HAS BEEN FOUGHT OVER FOR THOUSANDS MISSIONARIES 2 3 'REAVES AND HIS OF YEARS #YPRUS HAS BEEN CONQUERED WIFE WHO HAD SPENT MANY YEARS AND RULED BY THE !SSYRIAN %GYPTIAN WORKING IN 'REECE AND 4URKEY RETIRED 0ERSIAN 2OMAN AND "RITISH EMPIRES IN #YPRUS AND WORKED AS PIONEER 4ODAY #YPRUS IS A POPULAR TOURIST DESTINATIONˆPARTICULARLY FOR NORTHERN MISSIONARIES )N * 3HERWOOD *ONES WAS %UROPEANS SEEKING ITS SANDY BEACHES APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF THE !DVENTIST AND WARM DRY WEATHER 4HE ISLAND JOINED THE %UROPEAN 5NION %5 IN AND AS OF *ANUARY THE EURO IS ITS NATIONAL CURRENCY #YPRUS #90253 HAS A STRONG ECONOMY ABOVE AVERAGE FOR THE %5 "EYOND TOURISM #YPRUS /FlCIAL .AME 2EPUBLIC OF #YPRUS ECONOMY DEPENDS ON AGRICULTURAL #APITAL .ICOSIA PRODUCTS SUCH AS GRAPES CITRUS -AJOR LANGUAGES 'REEK 4URKISH AND VEGETABLES AND MEAT PRODUCTS %NGLISH !FTER GENERATIONS OF FOREIGN RULE #YPRUS GAINED ITS INDEPENDENCE 2ELIGION 'REEK /RTHODOX FROM THE 5NITED +INGDOM IN -USLIM /THER 4HREE YEARS LATER TENSIONS BETWEEN 0OPULATION MILLION
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HE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES SAW THE RISE OF THE hPROPHETS OF SECULARIZATIONvˆSOCIOLOGISTS AND POLITICAL THINKERS WHO PREDICTED THE DECLINE OF RELIGIOUS FAITH AS A FORCE IN SOCIETY 4HEY SIMPLY TOOK FOR GRANTED THAT THE MORE PEOPLE WERE EXPOSED TO ECONOMIC SCIENTIlC AND POLITICAL ADVANCES THE MORE QUICKLY THEY WOULD SHAKE OFF THE OLD FASHIONED SHACKLES OF FAITH 4HE DEATH OF RELIGION WAS SIMPLY A MATTER OF TIME 4HE OBITUARIES THOUGH WERE PREMATURE 7E lND OURSELVES TODAY IN A WORLD WHERE RELIGIOUS BELIEF IS CLEARLY A SIGNIlCANT AND IN MANY PLACES A GROWING FORCE IN SOCIETY )NSTEAD OF hSECULARIZATION THEORY v SOCIOLOGISTS ARE NOW MORE LIKELY TO SPEAK OF A hPOST SECULARv AGE "UT THERE IS ANOTHER POWERFUL FORCE OF THE TWENTY lRST CENTURY A FORCE THAT IS WHOLLY A PRODUCT OF RECENT DECADES 5NLIKE RELIGIOUS BELIEF IT IS NEWBORN IT IS BRASH IT HAS FEW MOORINGS IN THE PAST ) AM SPEAKING ABOUT THE PROCESS OF GLOBALIZATION WHICH IS RE CREATING HUMANITY S SOCIAL STRUCTURES WITHIN A SPAN OF TIME THAT IS QUITE SIMPLY BREATHTAKING 'LOBALIZATION ACTS AS A VAST DYNAMIC hTRANSPORT SYSTEMv THAT CARRIES IDEAS VALUES AND PEOPLE AND DEPOSITS THEM ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE "ARRIERS
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OF LANGUAGE CULTURE AND GEOGRAPHY ARE NO LONGER AS MEANINGFUL AS THEY ONCE WERE .O INSTITUTIONˆPUBLIC OR PRIVATE RELIGIOUS OR SECULARˆREMAINS UNTOUCHED 'LOBALIZATION IS A FACT IT IS HAPPENING IT S AS UNAVOIDABLE AND UNKNOWABLE AS ITS ULTIMATE CONSEQUENCES 2ELIGION SIMILARLY IS A REALITY THAT IS WITH US )T S HERE AND IT S A POWERFUL FORCE BOTH WITHIN THE LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS AND IN THE SOCIETIES WHERE THEY LIVE 4HESE TWO FORCESˆ GLOBALIZATION AND RELIGIONˆLIVE TOGETHER INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER AND ARE OFTEN INTERTWINED 'UIDING 6ALUES
&OR THE HEALTH MINISTRIES OF THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH SURVEYING THE CHANGING GLOBAL LANDSCAPE ON WHICH IT CONDUCTS ITS MISSION THESE ARE SIGNIlCANT ISSUES !S WE WALK INTO THE FUTURE THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT OUR COMMITMENT REMAINS STRONG 7E CONTINUE TO PLACE A HIGH PRIORITY ON FACILITATING FUNDING AND SUPPORTING PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL AND HEALTH CARE THROUGH OUR NETWORK OF MORE THAN HOSPITALS SANITARIUMS CLINICS AND DISPENSARIES THROUGH NUTRITION AND OTHER HEALTH PROGRAMS AND THROUGH OUR ADVOCACY OF VEGETARIANISM AND ALCOHOL AND DRUG FREE LIVING "UT WHILE OUR COMMITMENT IS CLEAR ) BELIEVE IT S TIME TO REmECT IN MORE DEPTH ON THE VALUES THAT SHOULD ANCHOR US AS WE STEP ONTO THE SHIFTING GROUND OF OUR CHANGING WORLD !ND MORE THAN THIS TO ASK OURSELVES WHAT VALUES WE CAN IN TURN IMPRINT UPON THIS TERRAIN 7HAT UNIQUE MARK CAN WE MAKE 7E NEED TO ASK OURSELVES 7HAT DOES A DISTINCTIVELY !DVENTIST APPROACH TO HEALTH MINISTRIES LOOK LIKE 7HAT DOES IT OFFER THAT ISN T ALREADY BEING OFFERED BY ANY NUMBER OF ALTERNATE PROVIDERS ,ET S CONSIDER BRIEmY FOUR STRANDS OF THOUGHT WOVEN THROUGHOUT !DVENTIST HERITAGE AND IDENTITY THAT ARE CENTRAL TO THE HEALTH MINISTRIES OF OUR CHURCH AND WHICH ) HOPE WILL CONTINUE TO GUIDE US INTO THE FUTURE /BVIOUSLY THIS IS
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h&OR ) WAS HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE ME SOMETHING TO EAT ) WAS THIRSTY AND YOU GAVE ME SOMETHING TO DRINK ) WAS A STRANGER AND YOU INVITED ME IN ) NEEDED CLOTHES AND YOU CLOTHED ME ) WAS SICK AND YOU LOOKED AFTER ME ) WAS IN PRISON AND YOU CAME TO VISIT MEv -ATT .)6 &OR 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS OUR MODEL FOR RELATING TO OTHER PEOPLE lNDS ITS BEGINNING AND END IN #HRIST S RADICAL IDENTIlCATION WITH HUMANITY !N INDIVIDUALISTIC INWARD LOOKING CONCEPTION OF #HRISTIANITY IS UTTERLY AT ODDS WITH A 3AVIOR WHO REACHED OUT TO RESTORE BLIND EYES CURE LEPERS AND HEAL AN EMOTIONALLY BROKEN WOMAN 1UITE SIMPLY WE CANNOT EXPRESS OUR FAITHˆOUR DESIRE TO IMITATE #HRISTˆIN SECLUSION OUR VALUES AND OUR BELIEFS lND THEIR TRUE MEANING ONLY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS )N THE WORDS OF MY FORMER TEACHER *ÓRGEN -OLTMANN h,IKENESS TO 'OD CANNOT BE LIVED IN ISOLATION )T CAN BE LIVED ONLY IN HUMAN COMMUNITYv * -OLTMANN 'OD IN #REATION P 3O WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIVE IN CONNECTION WITH OTHERS )T MEANS THAT YOUR PROBLEMS ARE NOT YOURS ALONE THEY ARE ALSO MINE )T MEANS HAVING A SENSE OF SOLIDARITY WITH HUMANITY THAT MAKES ME VULNERABLE ALSO TO ITS HURTS AND PAIN ,IVING IN CONNECTION WITH OTHERS MEANS SEEING THE LARGE PROBLEMS OF SOCIETY AS COLLECTIVE HUMAN PROBLEMS ) BEGIN TO SEE THAT POVERTY FOR INSTANCE IS NOT JUST THE RESULT OF RANDOM CIRCUMSTANCES OR ARBITRARY LUCK )F ) LIVE IN COMFORT AND SOMEONE ELSE LIVES IN DISTRESS COULD THERE BE A MATERIAL
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE TWO CONDITIONS 0ERHAPS THERE IS )N ADMITTING THIS MY SENSE OF ISOLATION DIMINISHES AND MY SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR OTHERS GROWS (OW WILL THIS VALUE EXPRESS ITSELF WITHIN THE HEALTH MINISTRIES OF OUR CHURCH "Y DELIBERATELY PLACING OURSELVES IN THOSE PLACES WHERE THERE ARE hGAPSv IN ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE IN OFFERING SERVICE THAT PAYS NO HEED TO A PERSON S RELIGIOUS ECONOMIC OR CULTURAL BACKGROUND IN AVOIDING hPAROCHIALv THINKING BY FORMING CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHERS WHO SHARE OUR GOAL OF RELIEVING HUMAN SUFFERINGˆBE IT A GOVERNMENT AGENCY ANOTHER FAITH BASED ORGANIZATION A LOCAL CHURCH OR MOSQUE )T MEANS BEING MOTIVATED BY SELF GIVING LOVE NOT THE DESIRE FOR lNANCIAL PROlT OR INCREASED INmUENCE 5LTIMATELY LIVING IN CONNECTION WITH OTHERS MEANS THAT hWHEN WE SEE HUMAN BEINGS IN DISTRESS WHETHER THROUGH AFmICTION OR THROUGH SIN WE SHALL NEVER SAY 4HIS DOES NOT CONCERN MEv 4HE $ESIRE OF !GES P 4HEOLOGY OF (UMAN $IGNITY
h4HEN 'OD SAID @,ET 5S MAKE MAN IN /UR IMAGE ACCORDING TO /UR LIKENESSv 'EN 7HATEVER THE )MAGO $EI MEANSˆAND WHO HAS A COMPLETE DElNITION OF IT ˆIT TOUCHES THE WHOLE PERSON 'OD MADE US IN (IS IMAGEˆPHYSICAL SPIRITUAL MORAL SOCIAL EMOTIONAL INTELLECTUAL BEINGS "UT FOR 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS THE IMMEASURABLE WORTH OF EVERY PERSON DERIVES FROM MORE THAN JUST THIS STAMP OF THE $IVINE GIVEN AT #REATION (UMAN DIGNITY SPRINGS NOT JUST FROM OUR ORIGINS BUT ALSO FROM OUR POTENTIAL AND OUR DESTINY 4HIS CONCEPT PROFOUNDLY SHAPES THE WAY WE DEAL WITH PEOPLE )N ALL OUR HEALING MINISTRIES WE SEE IN EACH 3EPTEMBER \ !DVENTIST 7ORLD
7 / 2 , $ 6 ) 3 4! PERSON NOT JUST hWHAT IS v BUT hWHAT IS POSSIBLE v )T MEANS ALSO THAT WE MUST AT TIMES HAVE THE COURAGE TO hWADE INTO THE FRAY v TO RECOGNIZE AND CONDEMN STRUCTURES OR PRACTICES THAT DIMINISH THE DIGNITY OF OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS 4HIS ISN T NEW TERRITORY FOR US (EAR THE WORDS OF FORMER 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE PRESIDENT !RTHUR $ANIELS SPOKEN ABOUT THE MINISTRY OF %LLEN 7HITE h3LAVERY THE CASTE SYSTEM UNJUST RACIAL PREJUDICES THE OPPRESSION OF THE POOR THE NEGLECT OF THE UNFORTUNATE ˆTHESE ALL ARE SET FORTH AS UNCHRISTIAN AND A SERIOUS MENACE TO THE WELL BEING OF THE HUMAN RACE AND AS EVILS WHICH THE CHURCH OF #HRIST IS APPOINTED BY HER ,ORD TO OVERTHROWv ,IFE 3KETCHES OF %LLEN ' 7HITE P 3IMPLY PUT ACKNOWLEDGING THE IMAGE OF 'OD IN HUMANITY MEANS THAT WE VALUE PEOPLE ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSEˆAND THIS FUNDAMENTAL PREMISE RUNS THROUGHOUT ALL WE ARE AND DO AS A CHURCH
STARKLY DISPLAYED THE EXTREME CONTRADICTIONS OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE THE CORROSIVE POWER OF SIN AND THE CREATIVE POWER OF 'OD THE DECAY OF FALLEN HUMANITY AND 'OD S ABILITY TO RENEW AND TRANSFORM THE AGONY OF SEPARATION FROM 'OD AND THE TRIUMPH OF 'OD CLAIMING (IS OWN )N THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF #HRIST THIS DIALECTIC BETWEEN DECAY AND WHOLENESS PROVIDES AN UNPARALLELED DISPLAY OF 'OD S CREATIVE AND REDEMPTIVE POWER "RINGING WHOLENESS OUT OF DECAY HEALING OUT OF SICKNESS lNDING PEACE IN CHAOS BRINGING LIGHT INTO THE DARKNESSˆ THIS IS THE TASK THAT THE FOLLOWERS OF #HRIST HAVE BEEN GIVEN &OR 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS hWHOLENESSv HAS ANOTHER DIMENSION /UR SPIRITUALITY EMBRACES THE WHOLE OF HUMAN LIFE IT RECOGNIZES THAT hTHE RELATION x BETWEEN THE MIND AND THE BODY IS VERY INTIMATEv 4HE -INISTRY OF (EALING P THAT WE DON T LIVE OUR LIVES IN hSEGMENTSv WHERE PHYSICAL HEALTH IS MERELY A hPIECEv THAT CAN BE SEPARATED 4HEOLOGY OF (OPE FROM THE TOTALITY OF OUR EXISTENCE h"EHOLD ) MAKE ALL THINGS NEWv 2EV +*6 /UR APPROACH TO HEALTH IS NOT JUST LIMITED TO THE &OR 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS HOPE IS A GRAND THEME TREATMENT OF DISEASE OR TO DElNING WHAT WE EAT OR DRINK AN ESSENTIAL PART OF OUR SPIRITUAL hGENETIC BLUEPRINT v "UT OR TO TRAINING MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IT S A CONCEPT THAT FOR US HOPE DOESN T JUST POINT FORWARD TOWARD THE GRAND ENCOMPASSES ALL THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE hCOMPLETENESSv OF EPILOGUE OF HUMAN HISTORYˆTHE hWHAT IS TO COME v (OPE IS HUMAN EXISTENCE THE LENS THROUGH WHICH WE VIEW PAST FUTURE AND PRESENT (EALTH MINISTRY IS THEREFORE INDIVISIBLE FROM /UR HOPE LOOKS BACKWARD TO THE REALITY OF #HRIST S DEATH OUR COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION TO HUMAN RIGHTS TO AND RESURRECTION AND lNDS THERE ITS TOUCHSTONE )T S A HOPE THAT HUMANITARIAN WORK TO ENVIRONMENTAL CARE TO OUR DESIRE LOOKS FORWARD TO THE MOMENT OF ULTIMATE TRANSFORMATIONˆ TO BE A FORCE FOR GOOD IN OUR COMMUNITIES !LL THESE WHEN ALL THINGS ARE MADE NEWˆAND lNDS THERE ITS IDEAL ITS COMMITMENTS lND THEIR BEGINNING AND END THEIR MEANING MOTIVATION !ND IT S A HOPE THAT LOOKS OUTWARD TO THE REALITIES AND OBJECTIVE IN OUR SPIRITUAL MISSION WHICH GIVES LIFE AND AS WE MEET THEM TODAY AND ASKS 7HAT THEN CAN WE DO TO START FORCE TO ALL WE DO AS A CHURCH BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT IS AND WHAT IS TO BE 3OME HAVE BEEN CRITICAL AND RIGHTLY SO OF AN ! 'OOD ,IFE ESCHATOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE THAT SERVES SIMPLY TO RECONCILE 4HIS IS WHERE WE STAND TODAYˆAT THE EDGE OF A NEW US TO CURRENT MISERIESˆAN hAPOCALYPTIC LETHARGY v "UT FOR WORLD THAT WE CAN T YET FULLY IMAGINE WHERE THE SHIFTING 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS THE RENEWAL OF ALL THINGS IS NOT PLATES OF TECHNOLOGY ECONOMICS AND POLITICS ARE STILL RE JUST A FUTURE EVENT IN HISTORY IT S A PROCESS OF RENEWAL THAT CREATING OUR GLOBAL LANDSCAPE BEGINS NOW !WAITING THE hBLESSED HOPEv IS NOT A PASSIVE 7HAT WILL TOMORROW LOOK LIKE ) DON T KNOW BUT ) KNOW EXERCISE BUT SOMETHING THAT DEMANDS ACTION IN THE PRESENT THAT IT S NOT TO BE FEARED 4HE HEALING MINISTRY OF THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST (OW WILL THE HEALTH MINISTRIES OF THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH IS PRIMARILY ABOUT AWAKENING HOPEˆPHYSICAL #HURCH IMPACT TOMORROW ) PRAY IT WILL HOLD STRONGLY TO ITS AND SPIRITUAL !LTHOUGH PHYSICAL NEEDS ARE OFTEN THE MOST COMMITMENT TO CREATE CONNECTION PROMOTE HUMAN DIGNITY APPARENT THEY ARE INDIVISIBLE FROM EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL AND OFFER HOPE AND WHOLENESS THAT IT WILL CONTINUE IN A NEEDS )N MINISTERING TO THE BODY WE CAN NEVER IGNORE THE MULTITUDE OF WAYS TO HELP PEOPLE ACHIEVE A hGOODv LIFE SPIRIT AND THE MOST BASIC NEED OF THE SPIRIT IS HOPE )N THAT SIMPLE WORD hGOODv LIES AN IMMENSE RANGE OF IDEASˆTHE ABILITY TO LIVE FULLY TO LOVE DEEPLY TO BREATHE 4HEOLOGY OF 7HOLENESS FREELY TO EXPERIENCE JOY AND THE ABSENCE OF FEAR TO KNOW h4HE BODY THAT IS SOWN IS PERISHABLE IT IS RAISED A HOPE THAT EXISTS OUTSIDE THE BOUNDS OF WHAT IS lNITE AND IMPERISHABLE IT IS SOWN IN DISHONOR IT IS RAISED IN GLORY IT IS THAT WILL TAKE US INTO 'OD S ETERNITY 4HIS IS THE GOOD LIFE SOWN IN WEAKNESS IT IS RAISED IN POWERv #OR #HRIST HOLDS OUT TO US THIS IS WHAT DElNES THE MISSION WE )N #HRIST S DEATH AND RESURRECTION WE SEE VIVIDLY AND HAVE BEEN GIVEN
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WITHIN THE !DVENTIST #HURCH S .ORTH !MERICAN $IVISION v +EN SAID h#OME AND VISIT SOME PEOPLE AND PLACES v 3O WE WENT AND HAD A TASTE OF MANY OF !LASKA S UNIQUE FEATURES &LYING (IGH
+EN ACCOMPANIED US ON OUR mIGHTS TO +OTZEBUE .OME AND lNALLY 3T ,AWRENCE )SLAND )N .OME A TOWN THAT LOOKS SURPRISINGLY LIKE THE hOLD WILD WESTv IN NINETEENTH CENTURY !MERICA WE SHOPPED FOR GROCERIES AND FOUND FOOD PRICES TO BE EXTREMELY HIGH #URRENTLY A GALLON OF MILK COSTS NEARLY AND A INCH PIZZA GOES FOR +EN A PILOT HIMSELF EXPLAINED THAT SMALL PLANE TRAVEL IS ESSENTIAL IN THIS REGION BECAUSE MANY VILLAGES HAVE NO OTHER ACCESS TO OUTSIDE COMMUNITIES /NE ROOM AT THE .OME AIRPORT HOUSES TICKETING A WAITING AREA SECURITY AND BAGGAGE CLAIM /UR PILOT LOADED LUGGAGE INTO "ERING !IR S SEAT "EECH THEN CLIMBED INTO THE COCKPIT FOR THE mIGHT ACROSS THE "ERING 3EA TO 'AMBELL 4HE ISLAND IS ACTUALLY CLOSER TO 2USSIA THAN TO THE MAINLAND AND THE OUTLINE OF THE COAST IS CLEARLY
VISIBLE SOME MILES DISTANT ! SMALL SETTLEMENT OF WOODEN HOUSES CAME INTO VIEW AS WE APPROACHED THE AIRSTRIP 7ISPY FOG HOVERED ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE VILLAGE 4HE EVER PRESENT !46S BROUGHT A CONVERGENCE OF PEOPLE WHO MET FRIENDS AND FAMILY OR PICKED UP MAIL AND A PIZZA )N A WAY LIFE ON 3T ,AWRENCE )SLAND IS SIMPLE NO FREEWAYS CARS SHOPPING MALLS CROWDS OR DEMANDING JOBS 3TREETS HAVE NO NAMES )N THE SUMMER NO DARKNESS COMES TO ALERT YOU THAT NIGHTTIME IS APPROACHING AND IF THE TEMPERATURE SHOULD RISE TO DEGREES THE NATIVE 9UP IKS LIKELY WOULD CALL IT A HEAT WAVE ,IFE HERE HOWEVER IS ALSO HARSH &RIGID BELOW ZERO TEMPERATURES AND
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IN THE WORLD CHURCHˆTHESE COULD BE CHALLENGES IN 'AMBELL AND 3AVOONGA "UT WHEN ASKED ABOUT IT #LEMENT EXPRESSED ONLY ONE NEEDˆA FULL TIME PASTOR h0ASTORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME v HE SAID h) CALL IT BACK UP v &OR )RMA THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE 3T ,AWRENCE )SLAND h) LOVE MY HOME v SHE SAID h) NEVER WANT TO GO AWAY EVEN TO .OME v
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WE ARE COMMITTING THEM 4HEY CAN BE THINGS THAT WE OUGHT TO DO BUT SOMEHOW WE NEGLECT TO DO SUCH AS A FATHER S NEGLIGENCE TO CORRECT A CHILD WHO NEEDS CORRECTION )T COULD ALSO MEAN APATHY TOWARD SOMEONE S PAIN OR LOSS OR NOT HERE WAS A TIME IN MY #HRISTIAN LIFE WHEN UNDERSTANDING WHAT $AVID MEANT BY hHIDDEN FAULTSv TAKING THE PROPER ACTION AGAINST THOSE WE SEE INmICTING WAS CRUCIAL TO ME (OW IS IT POSSIBLE TO VIOLATE 'OD S HARM TO OTHERS TAKING PROPERTY OR DESTROYING THE BONDS OF COMMUNITY (IDDEN SINS DON T NECESSARILY HAVE TO CAUSE LAW IF WE DON T REALIZE WE ARE SINNING !RE WE STILL GUILTY OF SCANDAL AS ADULTERY BUT EVEN SO THEY DEFY 'OD S LAW OF SIN $O WE STILL NEED FORGIVENESS LOVE AND MISREPRESENT (IS HOLY CHARACTER 4HE hHIDDEN FAULTS v OR SINS MENTIONED IN 0SALM REFER TO UNINTENDED SINS SINS WE COMMIT WITHOUT REALIZING
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5NTIL THE DAY ) MET THE WOMAN IN THE RED SUIT ) DIDN T REALIZE THE ADVERSE EFFECT HIDDEN SINS COULD HAVE UPON MY SOUL OR HOW THEY COULD WEAKEN MY RELATIONSHIP WITH 'OD "ECAUSE ) OFTEN SAW HER DRESSED IN A RED BUSINESS SUIT AND HAD NOT BOTHERED TO KNOW HER REAL NAME SHE WAS SIMPLY THAT THE WOMAN IN THE RED SUIT ANOTHER SILHOUETTE FADING 3 # / 4 4 3 . 9 $ % 2 0! 7 % ‹ : ! 7 ) 3 4 / 7 3 + ) $ ) ' ) 4! , ,9 - / $ ) & ) % $
INTO THE VASTNESS OF THE WHITE MARBLE HALLS OF THE STATE CAPITOL BUILDING WHERE WE BOTH USED TO WORK #OINCIDENTALLY THE OFlCE OF THE WOMAN IN THE RED SUIT WAS LOCATED RIGHT ACROSS FROM MY OFlCE %VEN SO MANY YEARS PASSED BEFORE ) LEARNED HER REAL NAME 0ERHAPS IT WAS HER SHYNESS THAT KEPT ME FROM REACHING OUT TO HER 3HE WAS AS SHY AS AN EARLY SPRING SKY AND HER GREEN GENTLE EYES SEEMED TO DANCE IN THEIR EXTRAORDINARY BASHFULNESS AS IF SOMEHOW PLEADING FOR A hHELLOv THAT ) ALWAYS OFFERED HER IN A HURRIED AND IMPERSONAL WAY ON THOSE OCCASIONS WE PASSED IN THE HALLWAYS ,IMITED IT SEEMED BY HER VAGUE AND DISTANT APPROACH ) SOON STARTED PERCEIVING HER NOT AS A PERSON BUT RATHER AS A STRUCTURE ALMOST AS IF SHE WERE PART OF THE BUILDING 4HUS IN THAT SENSE ) EXPECTED TO SEE HER THERE FOREVER "UT ONE WINTRY MORNING OUR OFlCE WAS SUDDENLY SADDENED BY THE APPALLING NEWS OF -ARCI 3MITH S DEATH ,IKE ALL OF US WHO WORKED AT THE CAPITOL BUILDING -ARCI 3MITH SHOULD HAVE HAD MANY FRIENDS AND FAMILY (OWEVER SHE HAD BEEN DEAD FOR A WEEK BEFORE SOMEBODY NOTICED SHE WAS MISSING ! NEIGHBOR WHO REPORTED A STRANGE PUTRID
(UNGRY FOR ,OVE
) DIDN T KNOW IT THEN BUT MY NEGLIGENCE AND LACK OF INTEREST IN OTHERS CONSTITUTED hHIDDEN SINSv THAT OFFENDED 'OD .O WONDER THE PSALMIST PRAYED h7HO CAN DISCERN HIS ERRORS &ORGIVE MY HIDDEN FAULTS +EEP YOUR SERVANT ALSO FROM WILLFUL SINS MAY THEY NOT RULE OVER ME 4HEN WILL ) BE BLAMELESS INNOCENT OF GREAT TRANSGRESSIONv 0S /UR TINY WORLD IS HUNGRY FOR LOVE FOR THE KIND OF DEEP AND SINCERE LOVE CAPABLE OF LIFTING DISCOURAGEMENT AND lLLING OUR HEARTS WITH HOPE .EVERTHELESS MANY TIMES BY OUR EXACERBATED INDIVIDUALISM WE DEPRIVE EACH OTHER AND DEPRIVE OURSELVES OF LOVE /UR WONDERFUL HEAVENLY &ATHER WANTS US TO REMEMBER THAT LOVE IS THE ONLY ATTRIBUTE OF THIS PRESENT LIFE THAT WILL BE FOUND UNCHANGED IN THE FUTURE LIFE (E DESIRES THAT WE UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF FREEING OURSELVES FROM HIDDEN ERRORS FROM SINS THAT WOULD MAKE US SUSCEPTIBLE OF FORGETTING THAT WE ARE CALLED UPON TO LOVE AS 'OD DID TO MAKE LOVE THE MOVING FORCE OF OUR LIVES
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5NTIL THE DAY ) MET THE WOMAN IN THE RED SUIT ) DIDN T REALIZE THE ADVERSE EFFECT HIDDEN SINS COULD HAVE UPON MY SOUL OR HOW THEY COULD WEAKEN MY RELATIONSHIP WITH 'OD ODOR EMANATING FROM HER APARTMENT BROUGHT IN THE POLICE AND THAT S HOW HER BODY WAS lNALLY DISCOVERED ) WAS ANGRY AT THE WORLD (OW WAS IT POSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE TO DIE AND NOT BE MISSED ) ASSURED MYSELF THAT -ARCI 3MITH S FATE WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT HAD ) BEEN HER FRIEND 3URELY SHE WOULD NOT HAVE DIED ALONE AND NEGLECTED AS SHE DID 4HEN ALL OF A SUDDEN ) REALIZED THAT ) DIDN T REALLY KNOW WHO -ARCI 3MITH WAS OR WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE ) DESPERATELY TRIED TO PUT A FACE TO THE NAME BUT h-ARCI 3MITHv WAS JUST A SAD SONG THAT PLAYED OVER AND OVER IN MY BRAIN A SONG WITHOUT A FACE (OW TERRIBLY INADEQUATE AND AT FAULT ) FELT WHEN ) WAS lNALLY GIVEN A DESCRIPTION OF THE DECEASED AND SUDDENLY REALIZED THAT -ARCI 3MITH WAS THE WOMAN IN THE RED SUIT THE NO NAME WOMAN WHOM ) NEVER TOOK THE TIME NOR THE CARE TO GET TO KNOW ) PRAYED TO 'OD WISHING THERE WAS MORE TIME "UT SADLY MY OPPORTUNITY TO LOVE -ARCI 3MITH HAD SADLY PASSED
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(OW CAN WE DISCOVER WHAT OUR hHIDDEN FAULTSv ARE (OW CAN WE OVERCOME THEM
(OW CAN WE EXEMPLIFY *ESUS LOVE TO THOSE AROUND US (AVE YOU EVER LEARNED THAT YOU HAVE UNINTENTIONALLY HURT
SOMEONE BUT IT S TOO LATE TO UNDO THE DAMAGE 7HAT SHOULD YOU DO THEN !ND WHAT CAN YOU DO TODAY TO LET SOMEONE KNOW YOU CARE ABOUT THEM
7HAT OTHER SPIRITUAL APPLICATIONS CAN BE TAKEN FROM THIS STORY 3EPTEMBER \ !DVENTIST 7ORLD
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AREFULLY ROLLING HER LONG BLACK HAIR INTO A BUN AND WRAPPING IT FOUR TIMESˆTWICE ON EACH SIDEˆAND TYING IT WITH WHITE YARN +RYSTAL PEERED AT HERSELF CRITICALLY IN THE MIRROR (ER PLEATED VELVET SKIRT AND BLOUSE WOVEN SASH BELT AND CONCHO DISPLAYED DESIGNS IN THE DEEP RICH COLORS OF TURQUOISE AND TERRACOTTA 3HE THEN SLIPPED ON LEATHER KNEE HIGH MOCCASINS AND THREW A SHAWL AROUND HER SHOULDERS -Y FAMILY WOULD BE PLEASED TO SEE ME IN MY .AVAJO CLOTHES +RYSTAL THOUGHT ) M GLAD ) M ALLOWED TO WEAR MY NATIVE DRESS HERE EVEN THOUGH ) DON T DO IT OFTEN 3HE THEN GRABBED HER TEXTBOOKS OFF THE DESK AND HURRIED TO CLASS 5NLIKE MOST OTHER SCHOOLS OFF THE RESERVATIONS IN THE 5 3 STATE OF !RIZONA (OLBROOK 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST )NDIAN 3CHOOL NOT ONLY
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ALLOWS BUT ENCOURAGES ITS STUDENTSˆ MOST FROM THE .AVAJO TRIBEˆTO EMBRACE THEIR .ATIVE !MERICAN CULTURE AND KEEP ALIVE THEIR TRADITIONS h%VEN THOUGH ACADEMICS ARE VERY IMPORTANT (OLBROOK S MAIN MISSION IS TO TEACH THE STUDENTS ABOUT *ESUS v SAYS PRINCIPAL *ANET #LAYMORE 2OSS h"UT WE ALSO PROMOTE RESPECT FOR THEIR NATIVE CULTURE v #LAYMORE 2OSS A MEMBER OF THE ,AKOTA TRIBE AND THE lRST .ATIVE !MERICAN PRINCIPAL SINCE THE SCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED IN SAYS THAT MANY OF THE VALUES HELD BY .ATIVE !MERICAN PEOPLE ARE THE SAME AS THOSE CHERISHED BY #HRISTIANS h4HEY VALUE HONESTY AND RESPECT FOR EACH OTHER AS WELL AS FOR NATURE v SHE SAYS h)F WE REALLY ARE #HRISTIANS IF WE REALLY FOLLOW WHAT *ESUS SAYS
IN THE "IBLE OUR BELIEFS BLEND WITH MUCH OF WHAT THEY HAVE LEARNED v ! 5NIQUE -INISTRY
(OLBROOK )NDIAN 3CHOOLˆ()3 FOR SHORTˆIS A + !DVENTIST BOARDING MISSION SCHOOL FOR .ATIVE !MERICANS SITUATED ON SECLUDED ACRES ABOUT MILES EAST OF &LAGSTAFF !RIZONA 5NITED 3TATES AND MILES NORTHEAST OF 0HOENIX !LMOST ALL OF ITS STUDENTS COME FROM RESERVATIONS IN !RIZONA AND OTHER SURROUNDING STATES AND ARE NOT MEMBERS OF THE !DVENTIST #HURCH 3OME SUCH AS +RYSTAL ARRIVE ON THE SCHOOL CAMPUS AS YOUNG AS YEARS OLD 4EN YEARS LATER AND NOW A SOPHOMORE +RYSTAL IS STILL THEREˆAND THOROUGHLY ENJOYING HER EXPERIENCE h) LIKE IT A LOT ) LIKED IT EVEN WHEN ) lRST CAME v +RYSTAL SAYS h!T HOME
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ARTS MATHEMATICS COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS WELDING AND SMALL ENGINE REPAIR 4HE STUDENTS ARE ALSO NATIONALLY KNOWN FOR THEIR SKILL IN POTTERY MAKING A CLASS CURRENTLY TAUGHT BY FORMER STUDENT ,YNESSA 3TANLEY 4HE PRIMARY MISSION OF THE FACULTY AND SUPPORT STAFF HOWEVER IS TO HELP PREPARE THE STUDENTS FOR A LIFE OF SERVICE TO OTHERS AND FOR ETERNAL LIFE WITH *ESUS h7E HAVE BAPTISMS EVERY YEAR v "ROWN SAYS h3OME OF THE STUDENTS DO IT BECAUSE THEIR FRIENDS ARE DOING IT BUT MOST DO IT BECAUSE THEY REALLY BELIEVE v 3HE ADDS h"APTISM MAKES USE OF CEREMONY AND THE .ATIVE !MERICAN COMMUNITY IS VERY CEREMONY BASED 7HEN THEY RE BAPTIZED THE STUDENTS SAY @.OW ) NEED TO LIVE MY LIFE AS A #HRISTIAN )T S THEIR PASSAGE INTO THIS NEW LIFE v
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THERE WAS NO ONE MY AGE TO PLAY WITH AND HERE IT WAS FUN STAYING IN THE DORM AND EATING DIFFERENT FOODS 4HE SCHOOL HAS LOTS OF ACTIVITIES THE CLASSES ARE FUN AND WE GO ON lELD TRIPS LIKE TO THE 0ETRIlED &OREST OR TO THE PARK TO PLAY GAMES AND HAVE A PICNIC v +RYSTAL S PARENTS SEPARATED WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG AND HER GRANDMOTHERˆ WHOM SHE STAYS WITH DURING HOME LEAVES AND WEEKENDSˆBELIEVED THAT (OLBROOK WOULD PROVIDE +RYSTAL WITH STABILITY NURTURING AND EDUCATION !LTHOUGH NOT AN !DVENTIST HER GRANDMOTHER WAS ALSO CONlDENT THAT THE SCHOOL S VALUES WOULD NOT CONmICT WITH HER OWN AND THAT IT WOULD INSTILL PRIDE FOR +RYSTAL S CULTURAL HERITAGE h+RYSTAL SPEAKS HER NATIVE LANGUAGE AND IS ABLE TO PLANT AND GRIND CORN v SAYS VICE PRINCIPAL AND
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(OLBROOK IS SUPPORTED BY THE 0ACIlC 5NION #ONFERENCE AND IS THE ONLY UNION SUPPORTED SCHOOL IN THE !DVENTIST #HURCH S .ORTH !MERICAN $IVISION 4HE UNION SUBSIDY COVERS ABOUT PERCENT OF THE SCHOOL S OPERATING BUDGET /THER FUNDS ARE PROVIDED THROUGH TUITION ROOM AND BOARDˆ A MONTH FOR THOSE IN HIGH SCHOOL A MONTH FOR ELEMENTARYˆ REGISTRAR 3HANNON "ROWN h4HE .AVAJO CULTURE KEEPS ALIVE MANY OF THE BUT MOST FAMILIES CAN T AFFORD TO PAY IT h/UR OPERATING BUDGET DEPENDS ANCIENT TRADITIONS /UR STUDENTS HAVE MOSTLY ON DONATIONS AND MONEY LEFT TO LEARN HOW TO DYE WOOL AND WEAVE TO US IN WILLS v #LAYMORE 2OSS SAYS CLOTH BEFORE THEY CAN GRADUATE 3O h7E BASICALLY GO ON TRUST AND FAITH +RYSTAL CAN DO ALL THE THINGS EXPECTED THAT THE ,ORD WILL SUPPLY THE MONEY v OF A TRADITIONAL NATIVE WOMAN v !ND (E OBVIOUSLY DOES 4O -OST IMPORTANT +RYSTAL HAS LEARNED ABOUT *ESUS AT (OLBROOKˆTHAT EXEMPLIFY 'OD S CARE #LAYMORE 2OSS TELLS OF A TIME SHE ASKED THE ASSOCIATE SHE HAS A 3AVIOR WHO LOVES AND CARES FOR HER !LTHOUGH SHE HAS NOT YET MADE BUSINESS MANAGER %UNIE "ANUAG h(OW ARE WE DOING v A DECISION FOR BAPTISM SHE SAYS SHE IS h7E REALLY NEED TO PRAY v "ANUAG hWORKING HER WAY THERE v RESPONDED THEN ADDED h7E RE GOING 1UALITY !CADEMICSˆ!ND -ORE
(OLBROOK IS ACCREDITED THROUGH THE !CCREDITING !SSOCIATION OF 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST 3CHOOLS #OLLEGES AND 5NIVERSITIES )TS FULL TIME CERTIlED TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS PROVIDE INSTRUCTION IN THE SCIENCES LIBERAL
3ANDRA "LACKMER IS AN ASSISTANT EDITOR OF !DVENTIST 7ORLD
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TO HAVE TO TAKE SOME MONEY OUT OF ;ONE AREA OF THE OPERATING FUND= IN ORDER TO MEET PAYROLL v h)S THERE ANY OTHER WAY v #LAYMORE 2OSS ASKED h) DON T THINK SO v h4HEN LET ME GET MY MAIL AND THEN WE CAN PREPARE THE PAPERWORK TO DO THAT v #LAYMORE 2OSS PICKED UP A HANDFUL OF LETTERS AND OPENED THE TOP ONE )NSIDE WAS A CHECK FOR ˆ THE EXACT AMOUNT NEEDED h)T JUST CONTINUES TO BE LIKE THAT v SHE EXPLAINS 4HE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR "ARBARA 7ILLIS CORROBORATES THESE EXPERIENCES h3OMETIMES A CHECK COMES IN THE MAIL ON THE VERY DAY YOU NEED IT v SHE SAYS h3OMETIMES IT S A PHONE CALL 4HAT PERSON MAY BE CONTEMPLATING A GIFT AND MAYBE THEY VE BEEN CONTEMPLATING IT FOR A WEEK BUT IT
COMES ON THE VERY DAY THAT YOU NEED IT )T S A DAILY FAITH WALK v -EETING THE #HALLENGES
-OST OF THE STUDENTS AT (OLBROOK COME FROM LOW INCOME AND SINGLE PARENT OR NO PARENT HOMES BRINGING WITH THEM WHAT #LAYMORE 2OSS DESCRIBES AS hSEVERE EMOTIONAL AND ABANDONMENT ISSUES v 0HYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL ABUSE ALCOHOLISM DRUG ABUSE AND VIOLENT GANGS ARE EVERYDAY REALITIES FOR THESE YOUTH SHE SAYS h!LCOHOLISM IS DElNITELY A BIG ISSUE v #LAYMORE 2OSS SAYS h,AST YEAR WE HIRED A VICE PRINCIPAL ;3HANNON "ROWN= WHO HAS A SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY DEGREE AND IT S MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN THE WAY THE KIDS ARE GETTING COUNSELING 4HEY ARE COMING TO HER FOR HELP )T S A BIG IMPROVEMENT v "ROWN CONCURS THAT THE CHALLENGES AT (OLBROOK CAN SEEM DAUNTING
h! LOT OF OUR PARENTS SEND THEIR CHILDREN HERE BECAUSE THEY VE GOTTEN INVOLVED IN DRUGS AND GANGS v "ROWN SAYS h0ARENTS KNOW THAT WHEN THEIR CHILDREN ARE HERE THEIR CHILDREN ARE SAFE v $ESCRIBING (OLBROOK AS A SCHOOL OF SECOND CHANCES "ROWN EXPLAINS h3OME OF THE KIDS WHO COME HAD GOTTEN INVOLVED EITHER WITH DRUGS OR ALCOHOL OR GOT INTO lGHTS /NE OF OUR BOYS CAME FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL AND HE WAS ON PROBATION FOR ALCOHOL USE (E TOLD ME HE WANTED TO MAKE A NEW START @) M GOING TO BE CLEAN HE SAIDˆAND HE HAS STAYED CLEAN (IS GRADES ARE GOOD (E S A JUNIOR THIS YEAR AND HE S ALREADY EXPRESSING INTEREST IN !DVENTIST COLLEGES h7E HAVE OUR SUCCESS STORIES AND OUR NOT SO SUCCESSFUL STORIES "UT WE HOLD ON TO THE SUCCESSFUL ONES v SHE SAYS -ATH AND "IBLE TEACHER !RTHUR -ILLER HAS TAUGHT AT (OLBROOK FOR YEARS (E SAYS HE DIDN T WANT TO DO THE
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hAVERAGE EVERYDAY THING ) WANTED TO DO SOMETHING WHERE ) CAN SHARE MY FAITH ON A DAILY BASIS AND REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE v h4HIS IS DElNITELY A MISSION lELD v SAYS -ILLER RECIPIENT OF THE %XCELLENCE IN 4EACHING !WARD FROM THE !LUMNI !WARDS &OUNDATION h-OST OF OUR KIDS AREN T #HRISTIANS LET ALONE !DVENTISTS v 4HE SCHOOL DEANS SEE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES MORE DIRECTLY THAN OTHER STAFF !SSOCIATE BOYS DEAN 3AM (UBBARD WHO HAS WORKED AT THE SCHOOL FOR THREE YEARS SAYS THE SPREAD IN AGES IS A UNIQUE FEATURE h(IGH SCHOOL KIDS HAVE DIFFERENT PROBLEMS FROM THE LITTLE ONES v (UBBARD SAYS h"UT THEY RE ALL LEARNING ABOUT *ESUS v (UBBARD DESCRIBES THE DORM SETUP FOR THOSE IN THE YOUNGER ELEMENTARY GRADES AS MORE hOPEN AND COMMUNITY BASED v 4HE OLDER STUDENTS LIVE IN INDIVIDUAL ROOMS AS IN A TYPICAL SCHOOL DORMITORY !DDRESSING SHORT TERM REALITIES (UBBARD SAYS h7E MAY NOT SEE A LOT OF RESULTS RIGHT AWAY IN THE SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL GROWTH OF THE STUDENTS BUT IN THE LONG TERM THEIR EXPERIENCE HERE WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR LIVES v
IS THAT THEY ARE FREE TO RETAIN THEIR CULTURE WITHIN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT h4HEY COULD WEAR THEIR NATIVE CLOTHING ANY TIME THEY WANTED TO v *ACKSON SAYS h7E TAUGHT NATIVE HISTORY AND IT WAS INCORPORATED THROUGHOUT THE CURRICULUMx %VEN WHEN WE TAUGHT THEM ABOUT 'OD WE TAUGHT THEM IN A WAY THAT RELATED TO NATIVENESS v *ACKSON ADMITS THOUGH THAT (OLBROOK CAN T SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS h4HERE ARE ONLY ONE OR TWO !DVENTIST PASTORS FOR PEOPLE ON THE .AVAJO RESERVATION v SHE SAYS h4HEY HAVE NO YOUTH PROGRAMS THEY HAVE NOWHERE FOR THESE KIDS TO GO FOR SUPPORT ONCE THEY LEAVE (OLBROOK )T S VERY DISCOURAGINGx 3OMETIMES AFTER THEY GRADUATE THE STUDENTS COME BACK TO VISIT 4HEY LL HELP OUT IN THE CAFETERIA STAY IN A GUEST ROOM )T S A COMFORTABLE PLACE FOR THEM 4HEY FEEL LIKE IT S THEIR HOME )T S A GREAT PLACE v "EYOND 'RADUATION
0RINCIPAL #LAYMORE 2OSS WHO HOLDS A DOCTORATE DEGREE IN %DUCATIONAL !DMINISTRATION AND WHOSE HUSBAND $UANE ALSO TEACHES AT THE SCHOOL SAYS SEVERAL OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE TO (OLBROOK GRADUATES h3OME GO ON TO !DVENTIST COLLEGES BUT MOST OF THESE KIDS GO BACK TO THE #ONTINUED 3UCCESS RESERVATION v SHE SAYS h4HEY lND WORK 4HE CHALLENGES AS WELL AS THE AS AUTO MECHANICS WELDERS THEY CAN SUCCESSES OF THE SCHOOL ARE NOT BECOME DOCTORSˆEVERYTHING THAT A NEW )DAHO #ONFERENCE %DUCATION PERSON DOES ON THE OUTSIDE CAN BE SUPERINTENDENT 0AULETTE *ACKSON DONE ON THE RESERVATIONS 4HEY HAVE SERVED AS (OLBROOK PRINCIPAL FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES ON THE RESERVATIONS MORE THAN THREE YEARSˆ*ULY TO $ECEMBER !LTHOUGH SHE SEES THE SO THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE THERE h4HEY ALSO SEE MILITARY SERVICE AS SCHOOL S MISSION AS MULTIFACETED SHE A VERY GOOD CHOICE TO MAKE )T PAYS SAYS ONE OF ITS PRIME OBJECTIVES IS hTO FOR THEIR EDUCATION AND IT S VERY PROVIDE A SAFE PLACE FOR KIDS TO LEARN ABOUT *ESUSvˆAND THE SCHOOL SEEMS TO STRUCTURED .ATIVE !MERICAN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP TO RESPECT THE ACCOMPLISH THAT OBJECTIVE h7E JUST NEVER HAD ANY TROUBLE ON MILITARY BECAUSE THEIR WARRIOR SOCIETY CAMPUS v *ACKSON SAYS h'ANGS ARE THE IS VERY WELL RESPECTED v BIGGEST PROBLEM ON THE RESERVATIONS BUT EVEN THOUGH WE TOOK SOME KIDS IN (ELPING /THERS 7ITNESSING TO AND HELPING THOSE WHO WERE TRYING TO GET OUT OF GANGS IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES HAVE WE NEVER HAD ANY TROUBLE ON CAMPUS STRENGTHENED THE SCHOOL S IMAGE WITH 4HEY WERE VERY SAFE v ITS NEIGHBORS !S PART OF (OLBROOK S *ACKSON BELIEVES ANOTHER REASON PARENTS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO (OLBROOK CURRICULUM FACULTY MEMBERS 0 ( / 4 / # 2 % $ ) 4 ( % 2 %
TRANSPORT STUDENTS INTO TOWN EVERY &RIDAY AFTERNOON TO PICK UP TRASH DO YARD WORK AND READ TO CHILDREN IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN CLASS h"ECAUSE OF THIS PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY FEEL VERY GOOD ABOUT (OLBROOK v -ILLER SAYS &ACULTY MEMBER ,OWELL *ENKS AND A GROUP OF STUDENTS TRAVEL ONE HOUR EACH 3ABBATH MORNING TO WORSHIP WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE KEEPING 3ATURDAY AS THE 3ABBATH BUT WHO ARE NOT !DVENTISTS 4HE SCHOOL IS PLANNING TO HOLD AN EVANGELISTIC SERIES THERE THIS SUMMER 4HE 5NION S 0ERSPECTIVE
0ACIlC 5NION #ONFERENCE ASSOCIATE EDUCATION SUPERINTENDENT 4HAMBI 4HOMAS SEES (OLBROOK AS A SUCCESS STORY h4HE CHILDREN HERE COME FROM CHALLENGING BACKGROUNDS IN SOME CASES FAMILIES ARE ALMOST NONEXISTENT v 4HOMAS SAYS h) TALKED WITH ONE YOUNG WOMAN WHO TOLD ME HER PARENTS ARE DIVORCED @7HOM DO YOU STAY WITH WHEN NOT AT THE SCHOOL ) ASKED HER @) STAY AT MY GRANDMA S @$O YOU LIKE IT HERE ) ASKED @) LOVE IT 0EOPLE HERE CARE ABOUT ME h&OR KIDS GROWING UP IN A DYSFUNCTIONAL HOME OR WHERE THE FAMILY STRUCTURE IS NOT STRONG (OLBROOK IS A HAVEN v 4HOMAS SAYS h4HERE IS A DEEP COMMITMENT ON THE PART OF THE TEACHERS ) TAKE MY HAT OFF TO THEM v 4HE 7ORDS OF A #HILD
(OLBROOK STUDENTS SUCH AS YEAR OLD !DRIAN OVERWHELMINGLY EXPRESS LOVE AND APPRECIATION FOR THE SCHOOL 4HIS YOUNG MAN HOWEVER IS PHILOSOPHICAL ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE THERE h) PLAY AROUND AND SOMETIMES GET INTO TROUBLE v HE ADMITS CANDIDLY hBUT IT S A GOOD SCHOOL ) REALLY LIKE IT HERE v !LTHOUGH HIS FAVORITE THINGS INCLUDE POTTERY AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES HE STRESSES h) THINK ;THE SCHOOL IS= GOOD BECAUSE YOU LEARN ABOUT *ESUS HERE ) LIKE THAT v &OR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT (OLBROOK 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST )NDIAN 3CHOOL GO TO WWW HISSDA ORG E MAIL HISNATIVECHILDREN YAHOO COM OR CALL
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DEALING WITH THE CONCEPT OF THE 4RINITY CAN BE FOUND IN )SAIAH )N ORDER TO SAVE )SRAEL VERSES 'OD hOUR &ATHERv VERSE SENT THE h!NGEL OF (IS PRESENCEv VERSE WHO OFTEN SPEAKS AS 'OD (IMSELF IN THE /LD 4ESTAMENT 4RAGICALLY THE PEOPLE TO BE REDEEMED REBELLED AGAINST THEIR 3AVIOR AND hGRIEVED (IS (OLY 3PIRITv VERSE )N CONSEQUENCE THE PROPHETS ENVISIONED A FUTURE DAY IN MESSIANIC TIMES WHEN A NEW COVENANT WOULD BE COMPLETED WITH A NEW SPIRIT IN NEW HEARTS %ZE *ER 4HESE TIMES WERE INAUGURATED WITH THE hOVERSHADOWINGv OF -ARY BY THE (OLY 3PIRIT ,UKE WHICH ENABLED HER BEING A VIRGIN TO CONCEIVE A hHOLY BEING v 4HIS SPECIAL BIRTH DIFFERED FROM THE 3PIRIT hlLLINGv A MERELY HUMAN BABY SUCH AS (IS COUSIN *OHN ,UKE FOR A PARTICULAR LIFE MISSION *OHN FORETOLD A FUTURE IMMERSION IN THE 3PIRIT -ATT WHICH *ESUS EXPLAINED AS THE NEW BIRTH FROM THE 3PIRIT *OHN FOSTERING AN INNER hNEW SELFv WHILE THE OLD DECREASES IN POWER #OL 4HIS PRESENCE IS THE hINDWELLINGv OF THE 3PIRIT 2OM .+*6 )T IS A PERMANENT GIFT OF 'OD THAT MAKES US (IS DAUGHTERS AND SONS AND SO HEIRS OF ETERNAL LIFE 2OM *OHN )T IS NEVER DENIED TO THOSE WHO SEEK IT SINCERELY ,UKE 4HIS SAME 3PIRIT ALSO GIVES GIFTS THAT ARE DIVERSE #OR AND ARE GIVEN TO SPECIlC MEMBERS VERSES hJUST AS (E DETERMINESv VERSE 4HEIR PURPOSE IS TO ENABLE SPECIlC ACTIONS WITHIN THE CONCERTED TOTAL MISSION OF THE CHURCH AS AN ORGANIC WHOLE NAMELY THE BODY OF #HRIST 4HE MISSION OF THE CHURCH IS GREATLY ADVANCED BY THE hFULLNESSv OF THE 3PIRIT WHICH LEADS TO RENEWED ENTHUSIASM AND BOLDNESS IN #HRISTIAN WITNESSING !CTS %PH 7HILE THE INDWELLING IS PERMANENT THE FULLNESS OF THE 3PIRIT MUST BE SOUGHT REPEATEDLY THROUGH PRAYER !CTS AND OTHER INSPIRATIONAL FORMS OF WORSHIP %PH
3U PP OR TER *OHN ,ESS WELL ASSIMILATED IS THE FACT THAT THE 3PIRIT ENABLES EACH BELIEVER TO BE AN INTELLIGENT PART OF THE ECCLESIA THE ANCIENT TERM FOR hASSEMBLY v WHICH IS SOMEWHAT OBSCURED BY TRANSLATING IT hCHURCH v .ONE SHOULD FEEL RELEGATED TO A CLASS OF MERE hLAY PEOPLE v LET ALONE AN hAUDIENCEv THAT SIMPLY SITS IN THE PEWS 4HE 3PIRIT OF #HRIST EMPOWERS ALL BELIEVERS GATHERING IN (IS NAME TO ACT WITH AUTHORITY -ATT 4HIS SHOULD LEAD THEM TO TAKE THEIR ASSEMBLY DUTIES VERY SERIOUSLY BOTH IN DISCIPLINING ERRING MEMBERS VERSES AND IN THE SELECTION AND SUPPORT OF LEADERS !CTS !FTER #HRIST THERE IS NO LONGER ANY SEPARATION BETWEEN PRIESTLY AND hLAYv TRIBES 'OD S PEOPLE TODAY ARE COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF PRIESTS AND PRIESTESSES 0ETER WHOSE ANOINTING TOOK PLACE DURING THEIR BAPTISM IN THE NAME OF THE &ATHER THE 3ON AND YES THE (OLY 3PIRIT !S SUCH YOU AND ) CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE TASK THAT DElNES ALL PRIESTHOOD TO REPRESENT BEFORE 'OD OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS WHO ARE IN SEARCH OF FORGIVENESS SYMPATHIZING WITH THEM IN THE AWARENESS OF OUR OWN WEAKNESS INVITING THEM INTO 'OD S PRESENCE AND INTERCEDING FOR THEM ACCORDINGLY (EB 7HILE CONTINUING TO PRAY FOR THE FULLNESS OF THE 3PIRIT WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET THAT WE ALREADY POSSESS THE hANOINTING FROM THE (OLY /NEv *OHN
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LLEN 7HITE HAD EVERY REASON TO BE JOYLESS !T THE AGE OF SHE EXPERIENCED A DEVASTATING ACCIDENT THAT LEFT HER IN BED FOR MONTHS AND DEFORMED FOR LIFE 4HE h'REAT $ISAPPOINTMENTv OF LEFT HER YOUTHFUL HEART WONDERING WHY *ESUS DID NOT COME (ER EARLY VISIONS WERE RIDICULED AND REJECTED BY MANY WHO HEARD THEM (ER HUSBAND DIED AT AGE AND TWO OF HER FOUR CHILDREN DIED IN THEIR YOUTH 4HROUGHOUT HER PLUS YEAR PROPHETIC MINISTRY CRITICS WORKED FEVERISHLY TO DISCREDIT HER EVERY WORD %VEN SOME OF HER FOLLOWERS REPEATEDLY REJECTED HER COUNSELS
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9ET IN SPITE OF ALL THIS OPPOSITION AND DISCOURAGEMENT SHE WOULD WRITE IN h(EAVEN IS FULL OF JOYv AND hRESOUNDS WITH THE PRAISES OF (IM WHO MADE SO WONDERFUL A SACRIlCE FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE HUMAN RACE v 4HOSE WHO WILL ONE DAY hJOIN WITH THE ANGELIC CHOIR IN THEIR ANTHEM OF PRAISE MUST LEARN ON EARTH THE SONG OF HEAVEN THE KEYNOTE OF WHICH IS PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING v 3UCH WAS HER UNDERSTANDING OF THE ROLE OF JOY IN THE #HRISTIAN LIFE )N THE MIDST OF TRIALS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS #HRISTIANS CAN LEARN THAT THEY HAVE EVERY REASON TO BE JOYFUL 7HILE COMMENTING ON *ESUS WORDS IN *OHN SHE WROTE
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h&OR ALL WHO RECEIVE (IM h7HY SHOULD NOT OUR JOY BE FULLˆFULL LACKING NOTHING 7E HAVE THE ASSURANCE THAT *ESUS IS OUR 3AVIOUR AND THAT WE MAY FREELY PARTAKE OF THE RICH PROVISION (E HAS MADE FOR US 7E MAY BELIEVE ON (IM KNOWING THAT (E WILL GIVE US GRACE AND POWER TO DO JUST AS (E BIDS US (E HAS GIVEN US EVERY ASSURANCE THAT (E WILL FULlL ALL THAT (E HAS PROMISED )T IS OUR PRIVILEGE TO SEEK CONSTANTLY THE JOY OF (IS PRESENCE (E DESIRES US TO BE CHEERFUL AND TO BE lLLED WITH PRAISE TO (IS NAME (E WANTS US TO CARRY LIGHT IN OUR COUNTENANCES AND JOY IN OUR HEARTS 7E HAVE A HOPE THAT IS FAR ABOVE ANY PLEASURE THE WORLD CAN GIVE WHY SHOULD WE NOT THEN BE JOYFUL v %LLEN 7HITE IS VERY CLEAR THAT THE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION COMPANIONSHIP WITH #HRIST AND THE RICH PROVISION OF 'OD S PROMISES ARE MIGHTY REASONS TO BE JOYFUL h#HRIST DWELLING IN THE SOUL IS A WELL SPRING OF JOY v SHE DECLARED h&OR ALL WHO RECEIVE (IM THE KEYNOTE OF THE 7ORD OF 'OD IS @REJOICING v ,IFE S #HALLENGES AND &RUSTRATIONS
4HIS UNDERSTANDING AND EXPERIENCE OF #HRISTIAN JOY DID NOT COME EASY IN %LLEN S YOUTH HOWEVER !S A YOUNG GIRL SHE EXPERIENCED A MAJOR SETBACK WHEN IN THE FALL OF SHE WAS HIT WITH A ROCK THROWN BY A CLASSMATE THAT LEFT HER SERIOUSLY INJURED #ONVINCED THAT SHE WAS DYING THE YOUNG YEAR OLD %LLEN GAVE HER HEART TO *ESUS IN SIMPLE FAITH 3EVERAL MONTHS LATER ON *ANUARY A DRAMATIC AURORA BOREALIS LIT UP THE .EW %NGLAND SKY 9OUNG %LLEN REMEMBERED THE EVENT
VIVIDLY BECAUSE HER MOTHER TOOK HER TO THE WINDOW AND SHE SAW THE GLOW IN THE HEAVENS THE hRED AND ANGRYv LIGHTS THAT MADE THE hSNOWv LOOK LIKE hBLOOD v 4HE NEIGHBORS WERE FRIGHTENED BUT YOUNG %LLEN WAS HAPPY 3HE THOUGHT *ESUS WAS COMING AND CLAPPED HER HANDS AS IF HER SUFFERING WERE OVER h"UT ) WAS DISAPPOINTED v SHE LATER RECALLED hTHE SINGULAR APPEARANCE FADED AWAY FROM THE HEAVENS AND THE NEXT MORNING THE SUN AROSE THE SAME AS USUAL v 4HE PROSPECT THAT SHE MUST CONTINUE LIVING IN THE MIDST OF HER SUFFERING EXTINGUISHED %LLEN S SHORT LIVED CHILDLIKE JOY /VER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS SHE STRUGGLED WITH DISCOURAGEMENT AND DEPRESSION "ECAUSE OF HER POOR HEALTH SHE COULD NOT RETURN TO SCHOOL AND GAVE UP HER HOPE OF AN EDUCATIONˆSOMETHING SHE VERY MUCH DESIRED h) WAS UNRECONCILED TO MY LOT v SHE WROTE hAND AT TIMES MURMURED AGAINST THE PROVIDENCE OF 'OD IN THUS AFmICTING ME v 3HE EXPERIENCED STRONG FEELINGS OF GUILT OVER HER RESENTMENT (ER SIMPLE FAITH IN *ESUS DISAPPEARED AND SHE WAS LEFT IN DARKNESS 4HIS FEELING WAS COMPOUNDED BY HER BELIEF IN AN ETERNALLY BURNING HELL EXACERBATING HER FEARS AND AGONY OF SOUL
THEME IN HER UNDERSTANDING OF THE #HRISTIAN LIFE h/UR 'OD IS A TENDER MERCIFUL &ATHER v SHE PENNED IN (IS SERVICE SHOULD NOT hBE LOOKED UPON AS A HEART SADDENING DISTRESSING EXERCISE v 2ATHER IT SHOULD BE A hPLEASUREv FOR (IS CHILDREN TO TAKE PART IN (IS SERVICE h(E IS THEIR BEST FRIEND AND WHEN THEY WORSHIP (IM (E EXPECTS TO BE WITH THEM TO BLESS AND COMFORT THEM lLLING THEIR HEARTS WITH JOY AND LOVE v !LTHOUGH %LLEN EXPERIENCED DEPRESSION AT TIMES SHE hSTRUGGLED AGAINST THE FEELINGv AND AFlRMED h) KNOW THAT 'OD WANTS (IS JOY TO BE IN US THAT OUR JOY MAY BE FULL v !FTER ALL h(E HAS A HEAVEN FULL OF BLESSINGS AND THESE BLESSINGS (E WILL GIVE TO US IF WE WILL TAKE THEM v (ER MOST MEMORABLE DISCUSSION OF #HRISTIAN JOY IS FOUND IN THE LAST CHAPTER OF 3TEPS TO #HRIST ENTITLED h2EJOICING IN THE ,ORDv h-ANY WALKING ALONG THE PATH OF LIFE DWELL UPON THEIR MISTAKES AND FAILURES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS AND THEIR HEARTS ARE lLLED WITH GRIEF AND DISCOURAGEMENT 7HILE ) WAS IN %UROPE A SISTER WHO HAD BEEN DOING THIS AND WHO WAS IN DEEP DISTRESS WROTE TO ME ASKING FOR SOME WORD
;*ESUS= THE KEYNOTE OF THE 7ORD OF 'OD IS @REJOICING v "LESSED !SSURANCE x *ESUS )S -INE
&ORTUNATELY A BREAKTHROUGH IN HER SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE OCCURRED AT THE "UXTON -AINE -ETHODIST CAMP MEETING LATE IN THE SUMMER OF 5PON HEARING A CONVICTING SERMON ON RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH %LLEN CRIED OUT TO 'OD FOR SALVATION h!S ) KNELT AND PRAYED v SHE RECALLED hSUDDENLY MY BURDEN LEFT ME AND MY HEART WAS LIGHTx ) CAN NEVER FORGET THIS PRECIOUS ASSURANCE OF THE PITYING TENDERNESS OF *ESUS TOWARD ONE SO UNWORTHY OF (IS NOTICE v 4HE CULMINATION OF %LLEN S CONVERSION EXPERIENCE WAS A COUNSELING SESSION IN INITIATED BY HER MOTHER WITH THE -ILLERITE -ETHODIST MINISTER ,EVI 3TOCKMAN %LLEN POURED OUT HER HEART TO 3TOCKMAN WHO IN TURN TOLD HER ABOUT THE hGREAT LOVE OF #HRIST AND THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION v 4HIS MEETING WITH 3TOCKMAN FOLLOWED BY A SIGNIlCANT PRAYER MEETING EXPERIENCE LATER THAT SAME DAY TRANSFORMED YOUNG %LLEN S ENTIRE #HRISTIAN EXPERIENCE 3HE LATER WROTE h-Y VIEWS OF THE &ATHER WERE CHANGED ) NOW LOOKED UPON (IM AS A KIND AND TENDER PARENT RATHER THAN A STERN TYRANT COMPELLING MEN TO A BLIND OBEDIENCE -Y HEART WENT OUT TOWARDS (IM IN A DEEP AND FERVENT LOVE /BEDIENCE TO (IS WILL SEEMED A JOY IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BE IN (IS SERVICE v 4HIS EXPERIENCE OF JOY IN 'OD S SERVICE STAYED WITH %LLEN THE REST OF HER LIFE )T WOULD BECOME A SIGNIlCANT COMPONENT IN HER PHILOSOPHY OF #HRISTIAN EDUCATION AND A DISTINCTIVE
OF ENCOURAGEMENT 4HE NIGHT AFTER ) HAD READ HER LETTER ) DREAMED THAT ) WAS IN A GARDEN AND ONE WHO SEEMED TO BE THE OWNER OF THE GARDEN WAS CONDUCTING ME THROUGH ITS PATHS ) WAS GATHERING THE mOWERS AND ENJOYING THEIR FRAGRANCE WHEN THIS SISTER WHO HAD BEEN WALKING BY MY SIDE CALLED MY ATTENTION TO SOME UNSIGHTLY BRIERS THAT WERE IMPEDING HER WAY 4HERE SHE WAS MOURNING AND GRIEVING 3HE WAS NOT WALKING IN THE PATHWAY FOLLOWING THE GUIDE BUT WAS WALKING AMONG THE BRIERS AND THORNS @/H SHE MOURNED @IS IT NOT A PITY THAT THIS BEAUTIFUL GARDEN IS SPOILED WITH THORNS 4HEN THE GUIDE SAID @,ET THE THORNS ALONE FOR THEY WILL ONLY WOUND YOU 'ATHER THE ROSES THE LILIES AND THE PINKS ;PP = v !S %LLEN 7HITE LOOKED BACK OVER HER OWN LIFE SHE FOUND EVERY REASON TO BE JOYFUL 3HE STILL CHALLENGES US TO DISCOVER THE SAME JOY TODAY %LLEN ' 7HITE h! 7ORD OF #HEER v 4HE 3OUTHERN 7ATCHMAN $ECEMBER IN %LLEN ' 7HITE 7RITINGS #OMPLETE 0UBLISHED %DITION #$ 2/- 3ILVER 3PRING -D %LLEN ' 7HITE %STATE PARAGRAPH )DEM h4HAT 9OUR *OY -IGHT "E &ULL v 3IGNS OF THE 4IMES !UGUST IN %LLEN ' 7HITE 7RITINGS #OMPLETE 0UBLISHED %DITION #$ 2/- PARAGRAPH )BID PARAGRAPH %LLEN ' 7HITE 4ESTIMONIES FOR THE #HURCH VOL P OTHER EYE WITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THIS CELESTIAL EVENT ARE FOUND IN #HARLES "OWEN 4HE !MERICAN !LMANAC AND 2EPOSITORY OF 5SEFUL +NOWLEDGE FOR THE 9EAR "OSTON #HARLES "OWEN PP ACCESSIBLE ONLINE AT BOOKS GOOGLE COM %LLEN ' 7HITE 4ESTIMONIES FOR THE #HURCH VOL P )DEM ,IFE 3KETCHES OF %LLEN ' 7HITE -OUNTAIN 6IEW 0ACIlC 0RESS P )BID P )DEM 3TEPS TO #HRIST -OUNTAIN 6IEW 0ACIlC 0RESS P )DEM 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE "ULLETIN !PRIL P
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)NDIANS HAD ALREADY LEFT IN FEAR 0EDRO FELT ALONE 0EDRO DECIDED HE AND HIS REMAINING )NDIANS WOULD lGHT AND DIE FOR THE MISSION IF NECESSARY (E HAD SOME lREARMS AND AMMUNITION IN A HOLE UNDER HIS COT (E THOUGHT THE TIME HAD COME TO USE THEM "UT HE FELT UNEASY "EFORE RETRIEVING HIS REVOLVERS AND SHOTGUNS HE KNELT IN PRAYER ASKING 'OD FOR GUIDANCE !S HE PRAYED GREAT PEACE lLLED HIS SOUL (E HEARD 'OD S VOICE TELLING HIM h-INE IS VENGEANCE ) WILL DEFEND YOU v 0EDRO LEFT HIS lREARMS AND RETURNED TO THE WINDOW (E DECIDED HE WOULD GO OUT AND MEET THE MOB AND SO HE TOLD HIS ASSISTANT h"UT -ASTERˆSAID THE )NDIANˆ YOU ARE GOING TO GET YOURSELF KILLED v h) M GOING OUT v 0EDRO ANSWERED h4HEN AT LEAST TAKE A lREARM v SAID THE )NDIAN h) M TAKING THE BEST lREARMv HE SAID h'IVE ME MY "IBLE v 4HEN HE OPENED THE FRONT DOOR AND WENT OUT "UT HOW DID A COUNTRY BOY FROM THE !RGENTINIAN mATLANDS END UP lGHTING FOR 'OD ON hTHE ROOF OF THE WORLDv
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0EDRO +ALBERMATTER WAS BORN INTO A FAMILY OF 3WISS IMMIGRANTS WHO HAD MOVED TO !RGENTINA IN THE LAST DECADES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 4HEY LIVED ON A FARM IN THE PRAIRIES &ROM THE TIME HE WAS A LITTLE BOY HE HAD LEARNED TO TAKE CARE OF HIS FATHER S SHEEP AND PROTECT THEM FROM LURKING FOXES AND SNAKES %VERY EVENING -OTHER +ALBERMATTER USED TO READ TO HER FAMILY ABOUT THE UNENDING TORMENTS OF HELL AWAITING THOSE WHO DID NOT BEHAVE BUT THOSE READINGS DID NOT PREVENT THE +ALBERMATTER BOYS FROM GETTING INTO FREQUENT lGHTS /NE DAY HOWEVER A COLPORTEUR SOLD SOME RELIGIOUS BOOKS TO THE FAMILY AND THEY BEGAN TO READ THESE BOOKS 6ERY SOON THEY LEARNED ABOUT THE 3ABBATH THE 3ECOND #OMING AND 'OD S HEALTH PRINCIPLES #ONVICTED THE FAMILY DECIDED TO BE BAPTIZED 3INCE THEY LACKED A POOL A VISITING PASTOR AGREED TO BAPTIZE THEM IN THE WELL THEY USED TO WATER THE CATTLE .OW THE NEIGHBORS SAW THAT THE +ALBERMATTER BOYS WERE NOT lGHTING ANYMORE AND THAT THEY HAD QUIT SMOKING AND DRINKING 0EDRO FELT 'OD WANTED HIM TO BE
IN THREE YEARS v THEY TOLD HIM h3TOP lGHTING AND SPEND MORE TIME SPREADING THE GOSPEL v 0EDRO HUMBLY ACCEPTED THE LEADERS REBUKE 4HE NEXT TIME TWO PASTORS CAME TO VISIT AND BAPTIZE THE CANDIDATES THEY FOUND 0EDRO HAD PEOPLE READY FOR BAPTISM 4HE FOLLOWING YEAR 0EDRO INVITED THE CHURCH LEADERS TO AN )NDIAN CONGRESS "ESIDES THE LOCAL DELEGATES THE CONGRESS WAS ATTENDED BY !DVENTIST LEADERS FROM THE UNION THE DIVISION AND EVEN THE 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE 3OME OF THE DELEGATES HOWEVER DID NOT MAKE IT ON TIME 4HEY WERE ATTACKED AS THEY WERE WALKING DOWN THE MOUNTAINS 4HEY WERE BEATEN STONED AND TRAMPLED UPON WITH HORSES 4HEY lNALLY GOT TO THE MISSION BLEEDING WITH BROKEN BONES AND 0 ( / 4 / ' 2 ! 0 ( 3 3 5 0 0 , ) % $ " 9 4 ( % ! 5 4 ( / 2 SEVERE BRUISES 0EDRO BEGAN TO TREAT THEM BUT BY NOW THE !DVENTIST LEADERS A MISSIONARY SO HE DECIDED TO ATTEND THE )NDIANS WERE MISTREATED AND SUFFERED WERE REALLY SCARED 7HEN THEY TRIED TO THE !DVENTIST SCHOOL IN THE PROVINCE DESTITUTION AND NEGLECT (OWEVER EVERY LEAVE AFTER THE CONGRESS A MENACING OF %NTRE 2IOS BUT THREE MONTHS AFTER ATTEMPT TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITION WAS MOB FORMED AND TRIED TO STONE THEM "UT 0EDRO FACED THE MOB SPURRED HIS 0EDRO GOT TO THE SCHOOL HE WAS DRAFTED MET WITH lERCE OPPOSITION 4HE lRST HORSE AND HELPED EVERYONE TO RETURN INTO THE ARMY MISSION SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF 3AMAN SAFELY HOME !FTER THAT INCIDENT WAS DESTROYED 4HEN 0EDRO WENT TO &ROM 3OLDIER TO .URSE !ZANGARO WHERE WE lND HIM ON THE DAY NOBODY EVER CRITICIZED 0EDRO AGAIN )N THE ARMY 0EDRO REFUSED TO WORK %VERYONE UNDERSTOOD THAT 0EDRO WAS HE WENT TO MEET AN ANGRY MOB ARMED ON 3ABBATH SO HE WAS WHIPPED BEATEN THE MAN FOR HIS TIME 'OD S CHOSEN ONLY WITH THE 3CRIPTURES AND lNALLY TAKEN TO JAIL 0EDRO WHO HAD WARRIOR TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL UNDER THE 4HE CROWD COULD NOT BELIEVE BEEN ALWAYS READY TO lGHT WAS NOW MOST CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES THEIR EYES 4HE 0ROTESTANT HERETIC WAS PRAYING FOR SELF CONTROL !FTER ONE YEAR OF WALKING TOWARD THEM UNARMED (E !S THE YEARS PASSED 0EDRO BECAME MISERY AND PRISON HE WAS lNALLY SET FREE WAS SMILING 4HEY TOLD HIM THEY WOULD ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED NURSES IN THE 0EDRO RETURNED TO THE !DVENTIST REGION %VEN THE LANDOWNERS LEARNED KILL HIM AND STARTED lRING INTO THE SCHOOL WHERE HE BECAME A NURSE TO RESPECT HIM -ORE THAN ONCE 0EDRO AIR "UT 0EDRO DID NOT RETREAT /N THE 3INCE HE WAS SINGLE HE HAD NO CHANCE CONTRARY HE ASSURED THEM THE SCHOOL CARED FOR THE SAME PEOPLE WHO YEARS OF BEING SENT TO THE MISSION lELD SO WAS THERE TO STAY &INALLY THE MOB RODE BEFORE HAD SWORN TO KILL HIM HE WORKED IN THE NEIGHBORING CITY OF !FTER YEARS OF WORKING IN THE AWAY VICTIM OF A STRANGE FEAR 2OSARIO FOR SEVEN YEARS WHERE HE ALSO HIGHLANDS 0EDRO AND -INA RETURNED 4HAT EVENING 0EDRO CONDUCTED A MET ANOTHER !DVENTIST NURSE CALLED TO THE FARMLAND PLAINS OF !RGENTINA THANKSGIVING SERVICE FOR BEING ALIVE 'UILLERMINA h-INAv WHO WOULD NOT FAR FROM THE !DVENTIST SCHOOL THAT &ROM THEN ON THE MISSION THRIVED BECOME HIS LIFE COMPANION HAD PREPARED THEM FOR MISSION SERVICE 0EDRO AND -INA GOT MARRIED 'OD S -IGHTY 7ARRIOR 5NTIL HIS DEATH IN HE NEVER CEASED AND HAD TWO SONS BUT WHEN THEY 0EDRO S METHODS OF CONFRONTING TO TELL OF 'OD S AMAZING PROTECTION WERE INVITED TO WORK IN THE 0ERUVIAN OPPOSITION WERE NOT ALWAYS ESPECIALLY ON THAT DAY WHEN HE FACED HIGHLANDS THEY GLADLY ACCEPTED !FTER UNDERSTOOD BY HIS FELLOW WORKERS A RAGING MOB WITH THE MOST POWERFUL DAYS OF TRAVELING BY TRAIN TRUCK AND 3OME OF THEM THOUGHT THAT "ROTHER "OOK EVER WRITTEN BOAT THEY GOT TO THEIR NEW WORKPLACE IN +ALBERMATTER WAS SOMETIMES THE WINTER OF TOO READY TO lGHT &INALLY HE WAS
4HIS ARTICLE IS BASED ON 0EDRO +ALBERMATTER S OWN ACCOUNT IN 6EINTE A¶OS COMO MISIONERO ENTRE LOS INDIOS DEL 0ER¢ 0ARANÕ 4HE SITUATION THEY FOUND WAS FAR SUMMONED BY THE !DVENTIST LEADERS .UEVA )MPRESORA AND "ARBARA 7ESTPHAL S ! -AN #ALLED FROM IDEAL 4HE +ALBERMATTERS SAW THAT h9OU HAVE ONLY BAPTIZED PEOPLE 0EDRO -OUNTAIN 6IEW 0ACIlC 0RESS ,EFT TO RIGHT ! 4!,, !.$ ",/.$ ).$)!. #()%& 0EDRO DRESSED IN THE COSTUME OF THE )NDIANS OF THE !NDES HIGHLANDS WHERE HE WORKED AS A NURSE TEACHER AND PASTOR FOR YEARS ;P OF BOOK SEE FOOTNOTE= 0!24 /& 4(% &!-),9 3HOWN ARE 0EDRO S PARENTS AND NINE OF HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE S 0EDRO WAS ALREADY WORK ING IN 0ERU WHEN THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN 2%34 /& ! 7!2 2)/2 *UST A FEW BLOCKS FROM THE SCHOOL THAT PREPARED THEM FOR THE MISSION lELD 0EDRO AND -INA AWAIT THE GLORIOUS MORNING OF THE RESURRECTION
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4HIS IS SUPPORTED BY *UDE WHO SIMPLY SAYS THEY ARE CHAINED AND IMPRISONED IN DARKNESS "Y THE WAY THE h&OR IF 'OD DID NOT SPARE ANGELS WHEN THEY SINNED PHRASE hGLOOMY DUNGEONSv IN 0ETER IS SOMETIMES RENDERED BUT SENT THEM TO HELL PUTTING THEM INTO GLOOMY IN 'REEK MANUSCRIPTS AS hFETTERS OF DARKNESS v )N THE DUNGEONS TO BE HELD FOR JUDGMENT xv ANCIENT WORLD PRISONS WERE IN MANY CASES DARK DUNGEONS AN APPROPRIATE SYMBOL FOR THE TOMB CF 2EV N THIS CONNECTION WE SHOULD ALSO CONSIDER A SIMILAR !PPARENTLY ANCIENT PRISONS DID NOT HAVE THE PURPOSE OF PASSAGE IN *UDE .)6 h!ND THE ANGELS WHO DID NOT INCARCERATING CRIMINALS AS A FORM OF PUNISHMENT 4HOSE IN KEEP THEIR POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY BUT ABANDONED THEIR JAIL WERE OFTEN COMMITTED TO HARD LABOR "UT IN MOST CASES OWN HOMEˆTHESE HE HAS KEPT IN DARKNESS BOUND WITH THE PRISONERS WERE AWAITING JUDGMENT OR THE EXECUTION EVERLASTING CHAINS FOR JUDGMENT ON THE GREAT $AY v ,ET S OF THE PENALTY ALREADY PRONOUNCED AGAINST THEM CF ,EV EXAMINE THE CONTEXT DISCUSS THE NATURE OF THE PRISON AND .UM !CCORDING TO 0ETER FALLEN COMMENT ON THE SIN OF THE ANGELS ARE INCARCERATED IN ANGELS SPIRITUAL DARKNESS IN THE #ONTEXT 0ETER IS DIS REALM OF DEATH AWAITING THE CUSSING THE WORK OF FALSE EXECUTION OF THEIR SENTENCE TEACHERS !CCORDING TO HIM 4HEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN THEIR PRESENCE AMONG 'OD S JUDGED PEOPLE IS NOT NEW 0ETER 4HE 3IN .EITHER /NE THING IS CERTAIN 0ETER NOR *UDE TELLS US HOWEVER THEY WILL EXPERIENCE THE NATURE OF THE SIN OF THE JUDGMENT OF 'OD 4O THE ANGELS !CCORDING TO SUPPORT HIS ARGUMENT 0ETER *UDE THE ANGELS hDID NOT USES THREE BIBLICAL EXAMPLES KEEP THEIR POSITIONS OF OF SIN LEADING TO JUDGMENT AUTHORITY BUT ABANDONED THE EXPERIENCE OF THE AN THEIR OWN HOME v 4HE FALL GELS THE PUNISHMENT OF THE OF THE ANGELS FROM HEAVEN ANTEDILUVIANS AND THE DES IS DESCRIBED AS ABANDONING "Y TRUCTION OF 3ODOM AND 'O THEIR APPOINTED ROLES IN !NGEL -ANUEL MORRAH HEAVEN THEIR ORIGINAL HOME 2ODR¤GUEZ 4HE CONTEXT IN *UDE IS 4HE COMMON VIEW AMONG SIMILAR (E ALSO DEALS WITH SCHOLARS IS THAT *UDE USED FALSE TEACHERS AND HIS THREE 'ENESIS AS INTERPRETED EXAMPLES OF DIVINE JUDGMENT ARE THE REBELLION OF THE BY *EWISH INTERTESTAMENTAL LITERATURE TO REFER TO THE FALL OF )SRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS THE FALL OF THE ANGELS AND THE ANGELS WHEN THEY ABANDONED HEAVEN AND HAD SEXUAL 3ODOM AND 'OMORRAH 4HESE CASES SHOW THAT 'OD WILL RELATIONS WITH WOMEN 4HEY ARGUE THAT THE CONTEXT IN *UDE INTERVENE AGAINST FALSE TEACHERS 4HESE PASSAGES ARE NOT IS ABOUT SINS OF IMMORALITY 4HAT INTERPRETATION HARDLY lTS SPECIlCALLY ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SIN OF ANGELS OR ABOUT THE CONTEXT OF 0ETER !LTHOUGH ONE CANNOT TOTALLY RULE OUT THE PLACE THEY ARE SENT THAT POSSIBILITY FOR *UDE IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO GO WITH THE 4HE 0RISON 0ETER USES VIVID LANGUAGE TO DESCRIBE THE WITNESS OF 3CRIPTURE ITSELF AND AVOID SPECULATION 4HE IDEA FATE OF EVIL ANGELS 'OD hSENT THEM TO HELL PUTTING THEM IN EXPRESSED IN BOTH PASSAGES SEEMS TO lT )SAIAH BETTER GLOOMY DUNGEONS v )N THE "IBLE hHELLv IS THE REALM OF THE WHERE THE FALL OF ,UCIFER IS NARRATED h9OU ARE BROUGHT DEAD THE TOMB 4HE COMMON 'REEK WORD FOR hHELLv IS HADES DOWN TO THE GRAVE TO THE DEPTHS OF THE PITv VERSE .)6 WHICH DESIGNATES THE PLACE OF THE DEAD THE UNDERWORLD "UT AS WELL AS 2EVELATION WHERE THE CASTING OUT OF IN THIS CASE 0ETER USES A DIFFERENT WORD A VERB TARTAROO hTO THE ANGELS IS PRECEDED BY A WAR IN HEAVEN CAST INTO TO HOLD CAPTIVE IN TARTAROS v )N 'REEK MYTHOLOGY 4O CONCLUDE 4HE lNAL FATE OF EVIL ANGELS IS lXED TARTAROS DESIGNATED THE DEEPEST AREA OF HADES RESERVED FOR -EANWHILE BEWARE OF FALSE TEACHERS IN YOUR CHURCH AND THE PUNISHMENT OF DISOBEDIENT GODS 0ETER USES THIS IMAGE BEWARE OF THEIR GREED 0ETER TO EXPRESS THE IDEA THAT FALLEN ANGELS ARE NOW IN PRISONS OF DARKNESS AND DEATH SEPARATED FROM THE DIVINE SOURCE OF LIFE 4HIS IS NOT A LITERAL PRISON BECAUSE DEMONS ARE STILL !NGEL -ANUEL 2ODRÓGUEZ IS DIRECTOR OF THE "IBLICAL 2ESEARCH ACTIVE IN THE WORLD OF HUMANS E G 0ETER *UDE )NSTITUTE OF THE 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE
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4HE BOOK OF 2EVELATION IN THE "IBLE DESCRIBES THE AGE LONG CONmICT BETWEEN #HRIST AND 3ATAN 4HROUGHOUT HISTORY 3ATAN HAS ATTEMPTED TO DESTROY 'OD S PLAN FOR THIS WORLD (E HAS ATTACKED AND PERSECUTED 'OD S PEOPLE (E HAS DECEIVED PEOPLE THROUGH (IS FALSEHOODS AND MANIPULATED MINDS THROUGH HIS LIES 4HE EVIL ONE HAS USED TORTURE AND DEATH TO ACCOMPLISH HIS PURPOSES )N SPITE OF THIS OPPRESSION #HRIST S FOLLOWERS HAVE NOT YIELDED THEIR FAITH 4HEIR LOVE FOR *ESUS HAS KEPT THEM SECURE IN TIMES OF lERCEST OPPOSITION 4HEIR COMMITMENT TO (IS CAUSE HAS KEPT THEM LOYAL IN THE FACE OF LIFE S GREATEST TRIALS )N TODAY S LESSON WE WILL STUDY HOW WE CAN TRIUMPH WITH *ESUS OVER ALL OF THE FORCES OF EVIL AND REIGN WITH (IM THROUGH ALL ETERNITY
7HERE DID THIS CONmICT BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL BEGIN h!ND WAR BROKE OUT IN HEAVEN -ICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS FOUGHT AGAINST THE DRAGON AND THE DRAGON AND HIS ANGELS FOUGHTv 2EV 4HE CONmICT BEGAN IN
)N YOUR OWN WORDS DESCRIBE WHY YOU THINK 'OD ALLOWED SUCH A CONmICT TO BREAK OUT IN HEAVEN
'OD RESPECTS (IS CREATURES ABILITY TO CHOOSE 4O TAKE AWAY THEIR POWER OF CHOICE IS TO TAKE AWAY THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO LOVE 4O TAKE AWAY THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOVE IS TO TAKE AWAY THEIR ABILITY TO THINK REASON AND BE TRULY FREE "EINGS WHO ARE NOT FREE ARE IN BONDAGE OR SLAVERY 'OD S LOVE LONGS FOR (IS CREATED BEINGS TO EXPERIENCE LIFE IN ALL ITS FULLNESS
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7HERE DID THE DEVIL GO WHEN HE WAS CAST OUT OF HEAVEN h3O THE GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT THAT SERPENT OF OLD CALLED THE $EVIL AND 3ATAN WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD HE WAS CAST TO THE EARTH AND HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH HIMv 2EV 4HE DEVIL WAS CAST TO THE
4HE DEVIL HAS MADE IT HIS SPECIAL WORK TO DECEIVE AND DESTROY 'OD S PEOPLE THROUGH THE CENTURIES 2EVELATION TELLS THE STORY OF HIS ATTEMPT TO DESTROY *ESUS WHEN (E WAS BORN AND PERSECUTE (IS PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES !LTHOUGH 3ATAN HAS ALWAYS OPPRESSED 'OD S PEOPLE THE WAR WILL INTENSIFY IN THE LAST DAYS 3EPTEMBER \ !DVENTIST 7ORLD
/N WHOM WILL 3ATAN FOCUS HIS ATTACKS IN THE LAST DAYS h!ND THE DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE WOMAN AND WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF 'OD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF *ESUS #HRISTv 2EV 3ATAN WILL MAKE WAR WITH THOSE WHO
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2EVELATION REVEALS THAT THERE WILL BE A MASSIVE CHURCH STATE ALLIANCE IN THE LAST DAYS /PPRESSION AND PERSECUTION WILL REPLACE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (OW DOES 2EVELATION DESCRIBE THIS UNION h4HESE ARE OF ONE MIND AND THEY WILL GIVE THEIR POWER AND AUTHORITY TO THE BEASTv 2EV h!ND ) SAW THE BEAST THE KINGS OF THE EARTH AND THEIR ARMIES GATHERED TOGETHER TO MAKE WAR AGAINST (IM WHO SAT ON THE HORSE AND AGAINST (IS ARMYv 2EV 4HIS CONFEDERATION OF CHURCH STATE POWERS IS OF ONE
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(OW WILL THIS WAR EVENTUALLY END h4HEN THE SEVENTH ANGEL SOUNDED !ND THERE WERE LOUD VOICES IN HEAVEN SAYING @4HE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD HAVE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR ,ORD AND OF (IS #HRIST AND (E SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER v 2EV 4HE
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'OOD NEWS ON THE WAY 3ATAN AND ALL HIS EVIL FORCES WILL BE DEFEATED AND DESTROYED 'OD S ETERNAL KINGDOM WILL BE ESTABLISHED 7E NEED NOT FEAR WE RE ON THE WINNING SIDE #HRIST AND (IS KINGDOM WILL TRIUMPH AT LAST AND WE WILL TRIUMPH WITH (IM
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4HANK YOU !NGEL -ANUEL 2ODR¤GUEZ FOR YOUR HONESTY IN ANSWERING THE QUESTION ABOUT TEACHERS IN !DVENTIST UNIVERSITIES WHO NO LONGER BELIEVE IN A SIX DAY LITERAL CREATION SEE h(ONORING THE #REATOR 'OD v *ULY (ERE S ANOTHER QUESTION 7HAT SHOULD !DVENTIST LEADERS DO TO STOP PROFESSORS FROM TEACHING THAT 'OD DID NOT CREATE THE WORLD AS TOLD IN 'ENESIS )T SEEMS THEY MUST BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR HIRING EVOLUTIONISTS AND ALLOWING THEM TO TEACH THEIR BELIEFS IN CLASSES AT !DVENTIST SCHOOLS -ARILYN -ORGAN +ETTLE &ALLS 7ASHINGTON 5NITED 3TATES $ISTURBING 4REND OR .UMERICAL %RROR
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OT LONG AGO WE TRAVELED TO A FRIEND S WEDDING /N 3ABBATH AFTERNOON SOME FRIENDS INVITED US TO GO WITH THEM TO VISIT ONE OF THEIR FAVORITE PLACES NEAR WHERE WE WERE STAYING 7E VISITED THE PLACE WHICH BOASTED A WONDERFUL VIEW OVERLOOKING A VALLEY 4HEN THEY SUGGESTED THAT WE CONTINUE ON WITH THEM TO ANOTHER SPOT THEY LIKED 7E AGREED 7E GOT THERE ABOUT AN HOUR BEFORE SUNSET AND THE GATE WAS CLOSED BUT THERE WAS A LARGE GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE STANDING AROUND INSIDE 7E WERE ALLOWED TO ENTER AND SOME OF THE FRIENDLY YOUNG PEOPLE CAME AND SPOKE WITH US EXPLAINING THAT THEY HAD COME TO THIS COUNTRY PLACE TO SPEND THE WEEKEND AND TO GET SOME RELIGIOUS TRAININGˆA SORT OF SPIRITUAL RETREAT -ANY OF THEM WERE COLLEGE STUDENTS OR WORKED IN THE BIG CITY NEARBY 7E TALKED ABOUT RELIGION AND ABOUT THEIR BELIEFS !S WE TALKED WITH THE LEADER HE REMINDED US THAT THE TIME OF THE END IS NEAR (E SAID h2EMEMBER ALL THE TRAGEDIES OF v !ND HE MENTIONED THE EARTHQUAKES mOODS AND OTHER PROBLEMS THAT YEAR HAD BROUGHT (E WENT ON TO SAY h4HE EARTH AS WE KNOW IT SHOULD HAVE ENDED THEN "UT 'OD IN (IS MERCY CHOSE TO DELAY THE END SO THAT MORE PEOPLE COULD KNOW (IM AND BE SAVED v ! BELL RANG AS WE WERE TALKING 4HE YOUNG PEOPLE lLED INTO A MEETING ROOM AND BEGAN HARMONIOUSLY SINGING CHORUSES )T ALMOST FELT AS THOUGH WE WERE ON AN !DVENTIST CAMPUS FOR SUNDOWN WORSHIP )N REALITY WE WERE VISITING 4HAILAND AND THIS PLACE WAS A "UDDHIST TEMPLE 4HE TEACHER AND STUDENTS WERE NOT TALKING ABOUT #HRISTIAN BELIEFS BUT RATHER THEIR OWN "UDDHIST BELIEFS ,EAVING THE PLACE WE TALKED ABOUT HOW THE CONVERSATION THAT SOUNDED SO h!DVENTISTv WAS REALLY A CONVERSATION WITH NON #HRISTIANS 7HAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR BELIEFS AND THEIRS /BVIOUSLY LESS THAN MANY OF US THINK "UT IT REVOLVES AROUND THE GREAT GIFT OF SALVATION BY GRACE 7E DO NOT HAVE TO DO GOOD IN THIS LIFE HOPING TO BE REINCARNATED INTO A BETTER BODY AND EVENTUALLY IF TIME LASTS LONG ENOUGH AND WE RE GOOD ENOUGH WE MIGHT REACH .IRVANA 'OD HAS SENT (IS 3ON SO THAT WE CAN BE SAVEDˆNOT THROUGH ANY WORK OF OUR OWN BUT THROUGH (IS BLOOD 7E DON T HAVE TO LIVE MANY LIVES IN ORDER TO REACH HEAVEN !LL WE HAVE TO DO IS BELIEVE AND WE WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE *OHN 3ALVATION IS A GIFT "UT WE SHOULD LIVE EACH DAY IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF WHAT 'OD HAS GIVEN US FOR OF ALL THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD ONLY #HRISTIANITY HAS A LOVING 'OD WHO GIVES SALVATION TO (IS CHILDREN #AN YOU IMAGINE WHY ANYONE WHO HAS RECEIVED A GIFT SO GREAT WOULD NOT WANT TO TELL THE WHOLE WORLD ABOUT IT 7HAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR ˆ2ONALD 6YHMEISTER 3ILANG #AVITE 0HILIPPINES
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