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Monday, August 23, 1976 / Volume 76, Number 8 / Angwin, California / Official Organ of the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Teachers Are Needed Who Will Maranathans Help Build Church at Thousand Qaks
Create Learning Experiences
If you pick up a handful of
sand at an ocean beach, you
will probably be impressed by
the grains’ apparent uniformity
in size and shape. Yet, with
sorting, you will probably find
that hardly any two of them
are identical.
A parallel 1s noted, when we
look at any group of elementary
school-age children. To the cas-
ual observer they all look very
much alike. Even among teach-
ers there has been a tendency
to classify the students as
“third graders’ or ‘slow learn-
ers’ or ‘problem children,”
overlooking the reality that
every human being is a unique
individual with his own char-
acteristics, emotional and psy-
chological make-up, dreams and
aspirations.
To understand implies a process
that is never finished and the
possessor of understanding will
be able to function in different
times and places equally well.
Today there is a great need
for teachers who can design and
create meaningful learning ex-
periences with and for their
pupils. The kind of elementary
school we need is not an unat-
tainable goal or an ideal to be
contemplated {for some distant
future. It is a learning environ-
ment which can well be struc-
tured now hy well-qualified
teachers whose actions are con-
INST=,IRATION SRE
sistent with their commitments
to children and to sound ways
of learning and growth. Each
child travels this road but once.
If you are about to decide
on a future profession, may we
urge that you seriously and
prayerfully consider teaching
in the denominational clemen-
tary schools as your high call-
ing.
Viktor A. Christensen
Associate Dean
School of Education
Loma Linda University
More on Conscience Clause
Eighty members of Marana-
tha Flights International spent
onc month (June 8-July 8) in
Thousand Oaks, California,
helping to build a new church
for the congregation which has
worshipped In rented quarters
the past six years.
Most of the 80 worked two
weeks, some less, and some the
entire 31 days. They came from
Tennessee, Colorado, Pennsyl-
vania, Georgia, Oregon, Arizona
and Ohio.
Maranatha Flights Interna-
tional 1s an organization of lay-
men who fly their own planes,
arive, or go by commercial-air
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Congress Reviews Labor Problem
Two members of Congress
from California testified July
28 at a hearing by the House
Subcommittee on Labor in be-
half of extending the “Con-
science Clause’ protection to
all areas of employment cov-
ered by the National L.abor Re-
lations Act.
Congresswomen Shirley Pet-
tis of lL.oma Il.inda, the only
Seventh-day Adventist member
of Congress, spoke of ‘“‘the ten-
ets of my religious faith” as
she traced for the committee
the consequences faced by Ad-
ventists and others who, for
reasons of conscience, cannot
take part in labor union activ-
ties.
“Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith.” Some
conscientious souls,
on reading this,
immediately begin to
criticize their every feeling and emotion. But this is not cor-
rect self-examination.
tions that are to be examined. The life, the character,
It is not the petty feelings and emo-
is to
be measured by the only standard of character, God's holy
law. The fruit testifies to the character of the tree. Our works,
not our feelings, bear witness of us.
“The feelings,
whether encouraging or discouraging,
should not be made the test of the spiritual condition. By
God's Word we are to determine our true standing before
Him. Many are bewildered on this point. When they are
happy and joyous, they think that they are accepted by God.
When a change comes, and they feel depressed, they think
that God has forsaken them.
“Exercise faith in God. How many there are who go
through life under a cloud of condemnation! They do not be-
lieve God's Word. They have no faith that He will do as He
has
said. Many who long to see others resting in the par-
doning love of Christ do not rest in it for themselves. But
how can they possibly lead others to show simple, childlike
faith in the Heavenly Father when they measure His love by
their feelings?”
Review and Herald, February 28, 1907
Congressman Don Clausen,
from the district in which Pa-
cific Union College and St. He-
lena Hespital are located, also
appealed to the Committee to
deal promptly with this legis-
lation which would prevent re-
ligious discrimination.
Chairman Frank Thompson
(D-N.J.) of the Subcommittee
on Labor stated publicly and
privately that he believes the
time has come for such a con-
science clause to be included in
the National I.abor Relations
Act.
In 1974, the National Labor
Relations Act was amended to
include private and for-profit
health-care institutions, mak-
ing it easier for them to become
unionized. At that time, Con-
gressman John Erlenborn (R-
I11.) sponsored an amendment
that was adopted to exempt in-
dividuals whose religious con-
victions prevented joining or
supporting labor unions. In Jan-
uary 1975, he introduced a sep-
arate bill (HR 1528) to extend
this protection to all employees
who are covered hy the Na-
tional Labor Relations Act.
As a result of numerous con-
tacts with members of Congress
from both parties, it was dis-
covered that much of the early
opposition to such a bill has
evaporated. Reasons for this
can be traced to the success of
the health-care exemption un-
cer the 1974 revisions of the
NLRA: decisions by the Equal
Employment Opportunity Com-
mission that employers and la-
bor unions are guilty of reli-
gious discrimination when they
fire individuals solely because
(Continued on page 8)
MORE GENERAL NEWS
ON PAGES 7 AND 8
John Freeman, founder and president of
the Maranatha Flights
International, and Mrs. Freeman stand by the project map which
shows the projects the Maranathans have carried on since 1969,
and have planned for 1976.
Officers of Maranatha Flights International are John Freeman,
F. H. Vanden Heuvel,
Slickers.
to specified places to build
churches, schools, or medical
and dental clinics In areas
where otherwise they might not
be able to build. Many use va-
cation time from their regular
work to do this.
The Thousand Oaks project
was unique in that it was car-
ried on with the object of rais-
ing funds with which to build
churches In Guatamala and
Mexico next winter,
Caris H. Lauda, Kay Slickers,
and Leon
They will go to Guatamala
in September and will spend
six months (different volun-
teers at different times) to
build and or restore 29 church
structures, 16 of which were
completely destroyed, and 13
damaged by the recent quake.
When the 80 members ar-
rived in Thousand Oaks, the
cement slabs and rough celec-
trical wiring were already in.
(Continued on page 7)
Nu-Vision Camp Gets Support
Support by state special-edu-
cation departments in Sacra-
ment is flooding the Church's
newest outreach for witness,
beginning this week at Camp
Wawona.
Nu-Vision Camp, according
to acknowledgements, will be
serving a class no other group
has sought to aid.
Blind and otherwise disabled
children have registered from
32 regional centers for devel-
mental disabilities: the Berke-
ley and Capitola Living Skills
centers, Santa Clara County
Outland Multi - handicapped
Program, Stockton’s Commu-
nity Center for the Blind, Ala-
meda County and Fresno Asso-
ciations for the Mentally Re-
tarded, various chapters of
United Cerebral Palsy, State of
California Southwest Regional
Deaf ‘Blind Center, and Porter-
ville State Hospital.
In addition, the State of
Washington Services for the
Blind is sending 15 campers;
the State of Nevada Bureau of
Services for the Blind is round-
ing up their qualified.
Gifts for more effective camp-
Ing continue to arrive at Nu-
Vision California Camping
Headquarters, too. (Nu-Vision
is the newest thrust of services
to the blind by the Christian
Record Braille Foundation with
offices in l.incoln, Nebraska.)
A 25-foot unsinkable 14-pas-
senger canoe has been donated.
The fiberglass construction has
a special flotation device which
makes it drown-proof.
(Continued on page 7)