During the past three ycars
the T.oma linda community
has been exposed to 43 Five-
Day Plans to Stop Smoking.
About 1.500 locals have made
nrogress in kicking the habit.
In 1973, according to Chap-
lain C. 1.. Turner, a cooperative
effort was adopted to stage a
Five-Day Plan every month,
starting the first Sunday night,
Sponsors are Loma Il.inda Uni-
versity Medical Center and the
Loma Linda Community Hospi-
tal. The meetings are held in
Butterfield Hall.
Stanley Kannenberg, health
educator at LLU Medical Cen-
ter, and Chaplain Turner of the
Community Hospital are co-
directors. They have the assist-
ance of four or five medical doc-
tors at each session.
States Turner: ‘‘Attendance
has been as high as 75 and as
low as 16 some months, but the
average is about 35. The group
is usually divided evenly be-
tween men and women.”
Secret of success 1s motiva-
tion, and this is accomplished
through instruction by the phy-
Five-Day Plans Being Held Regularly in La Sierra
sicians’ graphic illustrations
and films, wakonine human
will power, and group therapy.
“Smoking Sam” and “Smoking
Sue,” the two teenage manne-
quins, are often used to show
what cigarette smoke leaves
in the lungs.
“We lean heavily on group
therapy,” says Kannenberg.
“Strength from their peers is
a powerful support. We let
them talk about their problems
and tensions, and they gather
courage from others who also
have difficulties.”
“A new life style is suggested
to each person,” Turner notes.
“On the average, those who
want to quit the habit have
been addicted about 22 years.
We urge them to abandon al-
cohol and coffee, and decrease
the intake of fat and sugar. A
cood breakfast is advocated.”
Nearly 55 million Americans
smoke cigarettes today; cur-
rently about 800 die daily as
a result. The average consump-
tion is about a pack and a half
(30) a day. The national cost
is staggering. To the individual
Conference Committee Actions
The Conference Executive Committee met Thursday, August 3.
Here are a few of the actions and announcements that came out
of the meeting:
ELDER LOUIS VENDEN,
of Andrews
University, has accepted
the call to be pastor of the Loma Linda University Church. He is
completing his doctorate and may not
arrive until January 1.
ELDER JAMES MERSHON has been asked to serve as interim pastor.
ELDER GEORGE CHUDLEIGH, youth director of the Oregon
Conference, has been called to be youth director of our Confer-
ence replacing ELDER CLAY FARWELL.
ELDER JEFF PARK is being called from the Carolina Confer-
ence to be youth pastor with the Arlington Church.
ELSA STREICH is being called to be a Bible worker with the
San Diego Spanish Church.
With PASTOR MARIO PEREZ going to Andrews University,
PASTOR RIGO FERNANDEZ is transferring to the Colton-San Ber-
nardino Spanish Church to be associate pastor.
PASTOR ALAVARO ACEVEDO is being
La Sierra Spanish Church.
EVANGELIST and a Spanish evangelist are being
pastor with the
A BLACK
called to be associate
called to serve full time with our ethnic churches.
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1t means about $200 per year.
“It 1s amazing what five
nights can do for those who
really want to be free from the
¢rip of nicotine,” Chaplain Tur-
ner exclaims.
A new balanced diet 1s pre-
sented, which includes fruits
and vegetables. Individuals are
urged to take baths often and
drink water liberally.
Eight laws of health are out-
lined for the group: Use water,
exercise regularly, rest, nutri-
tion, make good use of sun-
shine, breathe freely of fresh
alr, develop self control, trust
in Divine Power.
“The nicest part about these
programs,’ observes Chaplain
Turner, “is when people come
to us and plead for help to over-
come the habit. They want help,
and we have the help they need.
The spiritual help they need is
stressed and is woven into the
Five-Day Plan.”
“The long-range goal is,”" ac-
cording to Kannenberg, “to in-
troduce and develop a better
life style, to improve their phyvs-
ical, mental and spiritual out-
look for a healthier, happier
future. It gives us a good feel-
ing when we succeed,” he con-
cludes.
Irwin Campbell,
Comm. Secy.
I.oma Il.inda University
Church
A Southern Asia Division
reunion will be held Sunday,
September 19, at 5:30 p.m.
in Linda Hall, beside the Lo-
ma Linda Campus Hill church.
Please bring your favorite
Indian dishes and your own
table service. Elders G. J.
Christo and Willis Lowry will
present the program.
HE.
Outdoor olay for the kindergarteners kept interest + high at Juniper
Avenue’s Vacation Bible School this year.
Fontana Juniper Avenue
This VBS Almost Didn't Happen
On July 3, 108 youngsters,
most of whom were not Advent-
ists, graduated from Vacation
Bible School at Juniper Avenue
Seventh-day Adventist church
in Fontana, and happily toted
their crafts and certificates
home. But it nearly didn't hap-
pen.
At the beginning of the year,
there was not even a VBS lead-
er appointed. Although a few
people said they would help,
no one wanted to be in charge.
For a few weeks, Sabbath
school superintendent Samuel
Benjamin despaired of even
having a Vacation Bible School.
Finally, his daughter Lydia
Benjamin volunteered. She ac-
cepted the responsibility with a
wiling heart, but when she be-
can workshops to get helpers
acquainted with the crafts and
workbooks and to sort supplies,
no one showed up, at first.
But pravers and persistence
finally won. Suddenly adult
workers from the church fam-
ily began to appear, and young
people by the droves volun-
teered to come in and help!
So, when 108 youngsters
“stormed the gates of the
church” as it were, Juniper
Avenue was ready for them,
and one of the church's
most successful Vacation Bible
Canadian Educators Visit LLU
Loma Linda University host-
ed government officials from
the Province of Alberta, Can-
ada, July 11 so they might ob-
serve colleges in the Seventh-
day Adventist educational syvs-
tem. Included in their campus
tour was l.a Sierra Campus in
the morning. and the g¢raduate
and professional schools at I.o-
ma Linda in the afternoon.
At a reception in the evening
V. N. Olsen, president of L.oma
i.inda University, presented a
bound volume of picturesque
August 7, the San Diego
Clairemont Company started
services ct a new location,
We have moved to the
Atonement Lutheran
Church
7250 Eckstrom Street
San Diego, CA 92111
We invite our many friends
and former members to visit
us at our new location.
Bonnie Molitor, Comm. Secy.
San Diego Clairemont
California to each guest of
horior.
Attending were: Neville O.
Matthews, president of Cana-
dian Union Colleze In L.acombe,
Alberta; Myer Horowitz of the
University of Alberta; A. E.
Hohol, Minister for Advanced
Education and Manpower {or
Alberta, and Mrs. Hohol; Reno
DBossette, Deputy Associate
Minister for Advanced Educa-
tion and Manpower; Jack Cook-
son, Member, ILegislative As-
sembly for Lacombe, Alberta;
and Elder I.. L.. Reile, president
of the Canadian Union Confer-
ence.
Schools ended note of
triumph.
Miss Benjamin is thankful to
the workers who rallied to the
call, and to God Who inspired
them to complete their ap-
pointed task.
Ann M. Caldwell, Comm. Secy.
Juniper Avenue Church
on a
APPROXIMATELY 135 CHIL-
DREN were in attendance at
the Calimesa Vacation Bible
School. Associate Pastor Dean
Belleau was in charge of a staff
of over 40 who staffed the
school.
Sunnymead Gets Pastor
Pastor Bruce A. Edminster
has recently taken over the pas-
torate of the
Sunny -
mead Church,
replacing Elder
Ervin L. Soren-
sen who has
gone to the mis-
sion field.
Pastor Ed-
. minster re-
B. Edminster iced his Mas-
ter of Divinity degree from An-
drews University in 1975.
He has had terms of service
as an associate pastor at the
Garden Grove and El Cajon
churches.
Mrs. IEdminster is the former
Mary Lou Nelson. She has at-
tended both San Pasqual Acad-
emy and Loma Linda Univer-
sity. The Edminsters have three
children, Jeromie, Allison and
Heidi.
From left: Neville Matthews, Myer Horowitz, A. E. Hohol, Mrs. Ho-
hol, Reno Bossette, Jack Cookson, Elder L. L. Reile
PACIFIC UNION RECORDER / MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1976