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Monday, April 30, 1984 / Volume 83, Number 22 | Angwin, California / Official Biweekly of the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh. -day Adventists
Laboratory technicians are among the ancillary staff trained in American
Sign Language at Glendale Adventist Medical Center— Chevy Chase.
[IW Reports on Miniseries Telecasts
Preliminary figures show that
8,853 families responded by either
telephone or mail to the invitation
for the gift book, The Cry of a
Lonely Planet, offered on the It Is
Written miniseries telecasts.
Stories behind the numbers con-
tinue to unfold.
One of the many people who
asked for the address of the
nearest Seventh-day Adventist
church also asked for a pastoral
visit. Later an Andrews University
chaplain called to inquire regard-
ing the visit and discovered one
excited gentleman!
This man and his family visited
the church, received a warm wel-
come, shared the fellowship meal
with members at lunch time, and
made plans to study the Bible with
the pastor. An unemployed sales
representative, the visitor provi-
dentially discovered that one of
the church members was looking
for a salesman in his business.
Many viewers visited churches
more than once, according to
follow-up reports.
Earnest and careful preparatory
work had been done in most areas
of the Northern California Con-
ference. For example, in one
church there were 40 interested
people one Sabbath, and in
another 35 people were present.
Results are still being tabulated
for Southeastern California Con-
ference where advertisements were
taken in the San Bernardino Sun
SIGNS
Wins Souls
and Riverside Press. Nearly
$2,800 was spent on ads during
the three weeks.
A total of 1,258 or 16 percent of
the total calls were requests for
specific information about Sev-
enth-day Adventists beyond the
promised gift book. And from
just two sentences about the new
videocassette Bible study ministry,
“Truth for the End Time,”’ 128
people requested information.
Parents called because they were
Another Caring Ministry
Disney-trained
Writer-Director-Composer E.
J. Irish, co-author of Chapel
Records’ ‘‘Secrets of the
Kingdom,’ has officially an-
nounced the formation of Always
Yes Productions. The ministry-
oriented concern will create
animated films for both general
and church audiences.
Mr. Irish, who received both his
B.A. in religion and M.A. in
religious education from Loma
Linda University, is a Bible
teacher and a former Disney
employee. He has written such
songs as ‘‘Dry ’'n’ Dusty,”
“Campmeeting Time,” ‘‘Stained
Glass Christ,”” “‘Destiny’’ and
“Quiet Galilean Nights.”’
“We plan to attract a large un-
churched general audience through
offering substance in music, story,
animation and dramatic talent,”
Mr. Irish explains.
““We believe the forming of this
group to be a miracle in itself. Our
people come from various Holly-
wood studios and have many
years of experience at film mak-
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GAMC Provitles for Deaf/ He earing |mpaired
Medical and communication
needs of the deaf community are
now being answered at Glendale
Adventist Medical Center.
Deaf and hearing-impaired pa-
tients are welcomed into a unique
hospital environment at the
Medical Center’s new Unit for the
Deaf and Hearing Impaired. The
33-bed unit, located at the Chevy
Chase campus, is the nation’s first
medical-surgical unit designed and
staffed to meet the communica-
tion needs of the deaf.
Each patient is provided with a
personal TTY (teletypewriter)
used by the deaf and hearing im-
paired to communicate on the
phone. Patient rooms feature
closed-caption television which
shows a written translation of the
impressed with the educational
program and wanted information
about the local church, so they
could put their children into
church school. Young people
called to find out all they could
about Adventist universities,
hoping to attend next year.
Pastors of other denominations
called, one a Pentecostal minister
who has already attended church
and is studying with the local
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Adventists To
ing. It’s as if God has been placing
us just where we needed to be
these last several years, and now
He wants us to make movies for
Him.
“Films of taste and with
spiritual sensitivity are more than
able to surprise the film world and
capture a large audience. Films
like ‘Chariots of Fire’ and ‘Ghan-
di’ show that,”” Mr. Irish says. ‘If
these film projects are 100 percent
God’s, then the current world,
which I am convinced is spiritually
malnourished, will be hungry for
them,’’ the camposer-artist
believes.
Always Yes plans on creating
follow-up Bible studies for In-
terests resulting from the film
projects.
““Our aim,’’ says Mr. Irish,
to take the God-given invention of
film, which Satan has so often
twisted and perverted, and in the
name of Jesus cast out the
demonic element and cause this
incredibly communicative art
form to come under the reign of
audio portion of many programs.
Each room is also equipped
with a special nurse-call system
which utilizes flashing lights in-
stead of an intercom and buzzer.
In addition, lights replace the
telephone bell and fire alarm.
Of primary importance, the
nursing staff, medical director
and allied health professionals
from throughout the Medical
Center are trained in American
Sign Language (ASL), the prin-
cipal language of the deaf and
hearing impaired.
“Wherever a patient goes in the
Medical Center—dietary, emer-
gency, social service, admitting,
or the pharmacy—he/she will be
able to communicate, to ask ques-
tions and to receive answers,’”’
says Mark Dana, program direc-
tor for the specialized unit.
The unique needs of the deaf
and hearing-impaired patient are
particularly appreciated by Mr.
Dana, who became deaf at the age
of 19.
““Glendale Adventist Medical
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Church To Observe Spirit of Prophecy Day
Although psychics, fortune-
tellers and astrologers have given
prophecy a bad name, the ‘‘tab-
loid’’ seers have aroused new in-
terest in the ministry of Seventh-
day Adventists and Ellen White.
Health principles advocated by
Mrs. White are being credited with
giving Adventists six additional
years of life—guidelines mentioned
in a current issue of the American
Medical Association’s Journal of
Medicine and The Saturday Eve-
ning Post. Specifically, the AMA
Journal reports on a study done
on students at the Illinois Confer-
ence boarding school, Broadview
Academy, while the Post spoke of
Adventists and health in a more
general way.
Such principles were found to
be unerring, while other publi-
cations are avowing that modern-
Animate Bible
the Creator-God, that His love
might be shared with ‘every na-
tion, and kindred, and tongue,
and people.” ”’
day prophets are ‘‘about 60 per-
cent on a guessing average.’’
In the midst of such discus-
sions, the Church again observes
Spirit of Prophecy Day, Sabbath,
May 19. Though Mrs. White did
not call herself a prophet, the
Church has called her that through
the years—even when referring to
her works of a more devotional
nature. Such a day of emphasis
gives time for education into the
Biblical evaluation of prophets
and the work of Ellen White in
particular.
Sermons across North America
will point out that prophets
through the years have, for the
most part, recorded their visions
in their own words—though ‘‘ho-
ly men of old spake as they were
moved by the Spirit.”
While longevity is not a trade-
mark of today’s ‘‘seers,’”’ Mrs.
White’s books continue to be best
sellers nearly seven decades after
her death. Steps to Christ, for ex-
ample, has been translated into
more than 100 languages and has
sold in excess of 19 million copies.
- 1984 Always Yes Productions. All Rights Reserved
E. J. Irish, founder of Always Yes Productions and co-creator of ‘Secrets
of the Kingdom’’ album, is seen here working on a future animated film
project at Burbank, California, studio.