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Central California
Conference
Charles F. Cook, president; George
R. Elstrom, secretary; Gordon E.
Bullock, treasurer; Box 580 1691
The Alameda, San Jose, California
95106. Phone (408) 297-1584,
Sonora
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Community Services/Inner City, Communication
“The Saviour mingled with
men as one who desired their
cood. He showed sympathy for
them, minis-
tered to their
needs, and won
thelr confi-
dence. Then He
bade them,
‘Follow Me.”
Welfare Minis-
try, 60.
Our Lord's i
method of W.-C. Webb
evangelism has to be the best
Hospital Construction Helps in Growth of Adventism
Hospital employees refer to
him as “Dr. B.” His wife and
friends call him “Ben.” But to
the community he is “Mr. Sev-
enth-day Adventist.”
This was the opening para-
oraph in a tribute paid to Ben
R. Boice, MD, Sonora Commu-
nity Hospital administrator, in
the January issue of “Your
Church,” a monthly publication
of the Sonora congregation,
When Dr. Boice and his wife,
Eloise, and their two-year-old
son, Chuck, arrived In Sonora
in 1949, there were 20 Advent-
ists who met in a rented hall.
The Boices assisted in the build-
ing of a two-story church
opened in 1952, as well as a
church school serving five pu-
pils.
Dr. Boice joined forces with
Drs. Paul and Helen Anspach.
They purchased a small valley
in the hills not far from town.
The brush was cleared sufli-
ciently to build the 42-bed So-
nora Community Hospital at
One South Forest Road which
was opened in 1957.
When the hospital was a go-
ine institution in 1963, Dr.
Boice and the Anspachs deeded
the property to the Central Cal-
ifornia Conference. Two years
later Dr. Paul took up a resi-
dency in orthopedic surgery.
This left Dr. Boice with (full
responsibility as administrator
of the hospital.
There are now 63 beds and
200 employees. Among the staff
physicians are specialists in ob-
stetrics, gynecology, coronary
care, orthopedics, pediatrics,
urology, anesthesiology, and
acupuncture.
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PACIFIC UNION RECORDER/MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1978
Recently, as Dr. Boice was
standing quietly looking out
over what had once been the
brush-covered land bought 23
vears ago, he was asked, “When
vou and the Anspachs pur-
chased this land, did you have
a vision of what might be de-
veloped here?”
He replied, “No way! We
were quaking for fear we would
not be able to keep a 42-bed
hospital going. The medical
work, the church, the school,
the welfare center and com-
munity estates have been the
[.ord's doing all the way.”
Today a community of 8500
persons has 450 Adventists
among them. When the Boices
came to Sonora, there were
only 20 Seventh-day Adventists,
Now there is one Adventist for
every 20 Sonorans.
Doris Payne, Comm. Secy.
Sonora Church
Frederick Diaz Is
Elder Frederick Diaz, a for-
mer teacher at
College, 1s the
new pastor of
the Mountain
View Spanish
Church. He
succeeds Elder
Eduardo Ocam-
po who accept-
ed a call as I
teacher in the £85
modern lan- Fred Diaz
guage department at Andrews
University.
Elder Diaz was ordained to
the gospel ministry at Soquel
in 1962, and holds a BA degree
from Atlantic Union College,
an MDiv degree from the
Church Divinity School of the
Pacific, Berkeley, an MA from
Pacific Union College, and a
PhD from Michigan State Uni-
versity.
He is married to the former
Daisy Perry. They have two
children: Debbi, 19, who at-
Pacific Union
“The Saviour . .
. Ministered to
way to win a soul, because of
His total dependence on His
Father. Can you imagine what
would happen if every pastor
and every church member used
Christ's program of soul win-
ning? >
Community services and In-
ner City programs have evan-
celism as their goal. Admitted-
lv, we are writing about long
range programs that will influ-
ence people for Christ and His
Church. We believe this manner
of working for others will win
them and hold them in the
Church.
During 1977, Community Ser-
vices and Inner City depart-
ments were responsible for 72,-
961 pounds of clothing packed
and shipped to SAWS ware-
house in Watsonville; for help-
ing 89,769 people in some mis-
sionary manner; for 209,115
pieces of clothing being given
to those 1n need; for giving
S9K,770.37 in cash value of food;
for working 134,402 hours, and
for sending 213 boys and girls
to Friendship Camp.
Communication is also an
important evangelistic tool for
the Church. By ‘‘communica-
tion,” we mean the use of the
various media tor evangelism.
The use of newspapers to report
the work of the churches is a
splendid method of evangelism.
Radio and television are also
very good avenues of getting
cur message to the people.
We wish we had the space
to share with vou some of the
beautiful letters of appreciation
which come to us concerning
the broadcasts in Central. For-
Their Needs”
ty-seven stations are broad-
casting It Is Written, Faith For
Today, and The Voice of Proph-
ecy. Seven of these are broad-
casting in the Spanish language,
two in Japanese, one in Filipino
and one in Russian.
Sixteen thousand seven hun-
dred and ten column inches of
news from Central's churches
appeared in daily newspapers,
along with 346 pictures, in 1977.
How would the record read
If each member in Central had
shared Christ with others in
some manner of service and
witnessing?
We must not be satisfied with
what we have done for Jesus.
There 1s still much land to cov-
er for our Lord.
W. C. Webb, Director
Community Services’
Inner City and
Communication
Delano School Opens;
25 Students Enrolled
An Adventist school opened
in Delano this year with all
eight grades represented in the
small group of children.
Last student count was 25
happy boys and girls, all en-
joving the benefits and bless-
ings of church school.
Three students from non-Ad-
ventist families are attending
the school. Two of these have
heen baptized. This brings the
number of students baptized in
1977 to seven.
The school thanks the Lord
for these children who have
given their hearts to Jesus.
Christian education does pay
and all can still trust in the
promise that ‘‘every day the
Lord added to their number
those who were finding salva-
tion.” Acts 2:47, NSV
Domingo De Leon, Teacher
Delano Adventist School
Mountain View Spanish Pastor
tends PUC, and Doug, 16, a
student at Rio I.indo Academy.
“I am happy to be the pastor
of such a growing, . dynam-
ic congregation as the Moun-
tain View Spanish Church,” re-
marked Elder Diaz In a recent
interview.
Since his arrival, he has or-
ganized a 30-member Pathfind-
err Club, an English class for
members and non-members in-
terested in learning the lan-
cuage. He is planning a drug
and sex education class espe-
cially for the T.atin-American
vouth of the area.
However, communication of
the gospel and soul-winning are
top priorities for the new lead-
cr. A number of laymen have
already been trained to clive
Bible studies In homes. They
use the Spanish Twentieth-
century Course, an audiovisual
Bible study set featuring color-
ful filmstrips and cassettes. The
church has purchased several
of these sets to facilitate this
missionary outreach by layvmen.
Members ave also actively in-
volved in the mass distribution
of truth-filled Spanish books
and macazines.
Membership has grown to the
point where they are cramped
in the quarters venerously pro-
vided by the Pacific Press. Con-
struction of a new church com-
plex will been sometime next
month. A ground breaking cere-
mony is scheduled for Sunday.
Mareh 120 at 11 am.
“We invite those who have a
building skill and who wish to
help to build our new church to
contact us immediately,” Elder
Diaz asks. All those interested
in this home missionary project
may write the pastor directly:
Box 1150, Mountain View, CA
910-12, or call (108) T36-21-15.
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