••••••:-.:••••••••••' OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEVENTH- DAY ADVENTIST UNION OF SOUTHEAST ASIA 
VOLUME SIXTEEN �
March - April, 1966 �
NUMBER TWO 
New Amer Alallis School 
gating Opened 
OVER 800 persons gathered to 
witness the official opening of 
the new classroom building of the 
Ayer Manis Seventh-thy Adventist 
School near Serian, Sarawak. This 
school is located on a hill beside 
the Kuching-Serian highway about 
forty miles from Kuching. Visitors 
from Singapore, Kuching, and Se-
rian joined with the faculty and 
students and friends in the opening 
ceremonies on this important and 
long awaited occasion. 
Among the special guests present 
were three representatives from the 
Government of Sarawak; Minister 
of State, Awang Hipni Bin Pengiran 
Annu; educational department, K. 
S. Akam; District Officer of Serian, 
Goh Hak Seng. All of these joined 
in participating in the ceremonies 
that attended the opening of the 
new building. Other government 
and educational officials were also 
present as well as the architect, Ling 
Kung, and representatives of the 
contractor. 
Representing the Far Eastern Di-
vision, Pastor H. D. Johnson, treas-
urer, congratulated the union and 
the mission-.for this mile stone that 
has been reached in providing this 
fine building and other new facilities 
for Seventh-day Adventist education 
in this area. Southeast Asia Union 
was represented by H. W. Bedwell, 
president; G. 0. Bruce, secretary-
treasurer; J. H. Lantry, educational 
secretary; V. L. Bretsch, publishing 
secretary. 
Pastor R. C. Hall, president of 
the Sarawak Mission, was the Mas-
ter of Ceremonies and introduced 
others of the mission and school. 
James Wong, principal of Sunny 
Hill School in Kuching, read a his-
tory of the Ayer Manis School. It 
_History of Ayer ,A4anis School 
James Wong, Principal 
Sunny Hill School 
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THE MESSENGER 
was interesting to learn that two of 
the present teachers at Ayer Manis 
School, Lawrence Pohan and Lora 
Pohan, are children of the first 
principal, Pastor P. T. Pohan, who 
opened the school for the first time 
in 1932. Following the cutting of 
the ribbon by the Minister of State, 
visitors were led on a tour of the 
new building followed by light re-
freshments. 
Pastor C. A. Ortner, principal of 
Ayer Manis School, and his corp 
of 21 teachers are doing a wonder-
ful work in the training of nearly 
600 students in the ways of Chris-
tian education. This new classroom 
building of concrete has space for 
eight large classrooms, small library, 
teachers room, business and reg-
istrars offices. Space has been left 
for future expansion tifrprovide li-
brary and science laboratory rooms 
and a chapel to seat 600. The funds 
for this new classroom building 
were provided by the Far Eastern 
Division by means of a special ap-
propriation. In recent years a boys 
dormatory and a girls dormatory 
with a cafeteria on the ground floor 
have been erected. These two build-
ings were made possible by 13th 
Sabbath school offering overflow 
funds. There are still urgent needs 
for further school buildings and 
teacher housing. 
Seventh-Day Adventists can be 
proud of the witness of this new 
classroom building sitting on the 
hill overlooking the main highway. 
It is bearing a witness to the Chris-
tian education being given by Sev-
enth-day Adventists to the youth 
of Sarawak that is training them to 
become future workers. At the pre-
sent time the teachers and students 
of this school are conducting fifteen 
branch Sabbath schools in an area 
of 30 miles of the school. Some 
travel by jeep, some by bicycle, 
some on foot, and solve by boat 
up or down the nearby river. 
Recently the land in the valley 
between the school and the highway 
was leveled for playfield and school 
activities. This area also provides 
a place for the plane of Pastor R. 
C. Hall, mission president, to land 
on its visits to the school. Travel 
time by plane is about fifteen min-
utes from Kuching as compared to 
an hour by auto. This makes the 
fourth private landing strip built 
for the mission plane as well as 
other government lancling areas 
available for use. 
—V. L. Bretsch 
A YER Manis School first opened 
I its doors to the children of the 
Serian District in 1932. A simple 
wooden building was located across 
the main highway from the present 
property. At that time jungle was 
everywhere for very few people 
stayed or farmed in this area. Wild 
boars, deer, mouse-deer, hedge-hog, 
musangs, monkeys, honey bears and 
biwaks, are just a few of the wild 
animals around the school at that 
time. These animals were often seen 
visiting the school garden and clear-
ed areas. It was reported that more 
animals than students visited the 
school as at this time there were 
only twelve pupils in school. Despite 
the dire perdictions of some that 
the school would close before the 
attap on the roof got dry, the little 
school continued to be a shining 
light of Christian education. 
Pastor J. T. Pohan was the first 
principal. He had the task of en-
couraging and persuading the Da-
yak and Chinese parents to let their 
children come to the Christian 
school. The response was slow. 
Many of the homes were quite far 
away and besides every hand was 
needed in the battle to subdue jun-
gle trees and grass in order to grow 
food and crops to make a living. 
A pupil in school was one less 
worker at home. 
March-April, 1966 
The name, Ayer Manis, means 
sweet water and refers to the spring 
water that comes from the hillside 
above the school. This is a very 
appropriate name for it was sweet 
to the weary travellers who dared 
to travel on the rocky road from 
distant Kuching for in those early 
days land travel was very difficult. 
The spring has continued to be 
faithful in supplying water to the 
school for the past thirty years. 
In 1936, A. L. Pauner, now living 
in Singapore, became the principal. 
The enrollment was larger. In due 
time it was found necessary to move 
the school to the present site across 
the highway from the original lo-
cation. The new site offered more 
land for buildings and agricultural 
development. The original buildings 
were a dormatory for the boys, a 
church with classrooms on its right 
side and behind it. Later on a girls 
dormatory was added. These were 
of simple wooden construction and 
were used for nearly 30 years until 
they were nearly completely des-
troyed by weather, age, and ter-
mites. All but the girls dormatory 
have been torn down and replaced 
by new buildings. The former girls 
dormatory is now being used for 
living quarters by teacher families. 
Pastor J. T. Pohan was again ap- 
(Continued on page 7.) 
Above, left: Pastor & Mrs. Do Binh Right: Pastor & Mrs. R. I. Mamora 
Below: Pastor & Mrs. Wong Yew Seng 
Recently he completed a very suc-
cessful effort in the Cholon, Viet-
nam Chinese church of which he 
is now the pastor. 
After graduating from our junior 
college in Indonesia in 1959, R. I. 
Mamora came as a missionary to 
Malaya. For several years he has 
served successfully as the pastor of 
the Kuala Lumpur church. Recently 
he accepted a call to Thailand where 
he is the Bible teacher at the Ekami 
English school and pastor of the 
school church. He holds a B.A. 
degree from the Philippine Union 
College. 
During the i ecent visits of union 
representatives to the various mis-
sions for the annual committee 
meetings, these thtee mission work-
ers were ordained in the local head-
quarters churches. Those who as-
sisted in these ordinations were D. 
R. Guild, union ministerial secre-
tary; H. W. Bedwell, union pres-
ident; G. 0. Bruce, union treasurer; 
V. L. Bretsch, union publishing sec-
retary; Jay Lantry, MV-educational 
secretary; Ralph Neall, Vietnam 
Mission president; and Palmer 
Wick, Thailand Mission president. 
March-April, 1966 �
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Ordained to the Ministry 
Daniel R. Guild, Union 
Ministerial Secretary 
"CHRIST the Son of God hath 
‘-Al sent me o'er tht widespread 
lands. Mine the mighty ordination 
of the pierced hands." In the South-
east Asia Union the church recently 
recognized Christ's call to three 
men and ordained them to the 
gospel ministry. 
Since graduating in 1943 from the 
Vietnam Training School conducted 
by Pastor A. V. Bentz of France, 
Do Binh has been a literature evan-
gelist, the pastor of two churches, 
and since 1960 the publishing secre-
tary of the Vietnam Mission. In 
spite of the difficulties in war-rav-
aged Vietnam, under his leadership 
the corps of literature- evangelists 
has grown from 38 to '73. Do Binh 
has led his literature evangelists in 
conducting branch Sabbath schools, 
giving Bible studies, and acting as 
the pastors of several churches. Sev-
eral hundred have been led to Christ 
through the missionary activities of 
Vietnam's literature evangelists. 
Since 1958 Wong Yew Seng of 
Penang, Malaya has been engaged 
in pastoral-evangelistic work as a 
missionary to Sabah on the island 
of Borneo, to Cambodia, and now 
to Chalon, Vietnam. He is a grad-
uate of the ministerial course of 
the Southeast Asia Union College 
and holds a B.A. degree from the 
South China Island Union College. 
Ministerial Workers 
Institute 
S. J. Lee, President 
Malaya Mission 
THE ministerial workers of the 
Malaya Mission, the chaplain 
and Bible workers of our two hos-
pitals in Singapore and Penang, our 
ministerial students and several of 
our retired ministers spent a very 
profitable time in Port Dickson at-
tending the annual Workers' Insti-
tute, held January 30 to February 
3, 1966. 
Prior to attending this Institute, 
these workers had already spent six 
long and wearisome days at the 
Lay Leadership Training School 
which ended on the afternoon of 
January 29. They were still full of 
energy and pep and entered whole- 
(Continued on page 4.) 
D. R. Guild speal 
Public Relations Secretary of the 
Far Eastern Division, spot an-
nouncements on the radio, four 
paid ads, and posters at the hos-
pital and the auditorium. 
Several requests have come in 
from people who could not attend 
the meetings, asking for information 
Malaya Mission Wa 
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THE MESSENGER �
March-April, 1966 
Victors Over Smoking 
IN the recent 5 Day Plan to Stop 
Smoking held in Saigon, a very 
interesting experience came to light. 
The publicity in Saigon made it 
clear that children under fifteen 
could not attend unless they came 
with an adult, otherwise the seats 
would mostly be taken by children. 
On the opening night the three boys 
pictured in photo came to the door 
to enter. Pastor D. R. Guild, one 
of the evening speakers, stopped 
then from entering. "Children are 
allowed to attend only with par-
ents," he informed them. 
"But, sir," they replied, "we want 
to get rid of the smoking habit and 
for this reason we want to come to 
the lecture tonight to learn how." 
After some further discussion re-
vealed that they really were smokers 
and had been for several years, he 
permitted the small boys to attend. 
They were thirteen, fourteen, and 
fifteen years old and had been 
smoking for several years. They 
faithfully attended the lectures and 
obtained the victory over the to-
bacco habit and stopped smoking. 
Our mission workers got acquainted 
with the boys and are following up 
their interest. 
Yes, the Five Day Plan is for old 
people, young people, and the chil-
dren—anyone who has a desire to 
quite smoking. And the Plan really 
works! 
—H. W. Bedwell 
Saigon 5 Day Plan 
R. E. Neall, President 
Vietnam Mission 
FORTY smokers "kicked" the hab-
it during the Five-Day Plan to 
Stop Smoking held in Saigon Feb-
ruary 13-17. Dr. Ralph Waddell, 
Medical Secretary for the Far East-
ern Division, and Pastor D. R. 
Guild, Ministerial Association Sec-
retary for the Southeast Asia Union, 
led out in the nightly sessions. 
Held in the beautiful auditorium 
of the Vietnamese—American As-
sociation in downtown Saigon, the 
Plan attracted more than 120 people 
from the better classes every night. 
The Vietnamese—American Associ-
ation and the Saigon Adventist Hos-
pital served as co-sponsors of the 
service to the public. 
Each lecture was delivered in 
English and translated into Viet-
namese. The control cards and lite-
rature were also available in both 
languages. Pastor Le Huu, Acting 
Principal of the Vietnam Training 
School, was the translator. The talks 
received an excellent response from 
the listeners. 
Publicity for the Plan included 
news announcements in the press 
beforehand prepared by Don Roth, 
Ministerial Workers Institute 
(From page 3.) 
heartedly in the class studies and 
discussions at the Institute. The 
subjects presented and discussed 
were pertinent to their needs of the 
hour. Those who contributed sub-
ject materials for study were Pas-
tors H. W. Bedwell, G. 0. Bruce, 
D. R. Guild, J. H. Lantry, Joshua 
Chong, G. D. Thompson, T. K. 
Chong and A. Waworoendeng and 
the writer. Pastor V. L. Bretsch, 
our new Union Publishing Secretary 
was present towards the close of 
the meetings and gave a very im-
portant talk on the relationship of 
the pastors to the publishing work 
which is another department or-
ganized for the saving of souls. 
Sister J. H. Lantry also spent a 
very profitable hour with us out-
lining the new recommendations for 
the soul-saving work of the Sab-
bath School Department. 
The studies and discussions were 
so interesting and beneficial that 
many wished that the Institute could 
be extended another few days or 
that more time could be had for 
discussions and questions. When it 
came time to leave the place for 
their respective homes and church-
es, almost every one expressed the 
desire to be present again at the 
next Institute. This Institute is one 
that will not be soon forgotten by 
our workers, thanks to the efforts 
Saigon 5 Day Plan 
New Press Dedicated 
Institute Port Pickson 
March-April, 1966 �
THE MESSENGER 
Medical Evangelism 
Bears Fruit 
R. R. Bietz, President 
Pacific Union Conference 
HE other day while I was sitting 
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in my office, a non-Seventh-day 
Adventist lady called me on the 
telephone. The reason for her call-
ing was to tell me about her happy 
experience in one of our hospitals. 
She was making a trip around the 
world recently, and while visiting 
in Bangkok, Thailand, she became 
ill rather suddenly and was taken 
to the Bangkok Sanitarium and 
Hospital, a Seventh-day medical in-
stitution. 
The treatment she received there 
from capable, dedicated doctors and 
nurses made such a tremendous im-
pression on her that she felt that 
she had to call me up and tell me 
about it. It took her quite a while 
to tell her story, but I was happy 
to listen. Time is never wasted 
listening to cheering reports. 
A few of the many fine state-
ments she made are: "My expe-
rience in that hospital was the next 
thing to being in Paradise." "You 
are the most unselfish people." 
"Why can't there be more insti-
tutions like this one?" "Those doc-
tors were so kind, capable, and 
dedicated." "And, oh, those nurses, 
they were kindest people I ever 
met" 
Wherever there are consecrated, 
loyal, and dedicated Seventh-day 
Adventist doctors, dentists, and 
nurses, society is greatly blessed and 
the church is praised. The product 
of medical evangelism can be a 
powerful factor not only in bringing 
healing to the body, but also to the 
soul; not only in building a strong 
society, but also a strong church in 
society not only in preparing peo-
ple for citizenship here, but for 
citizenship in heaven. 
EDITORIAL NOTE: 
*This report appeared in the Pacific 
Union RECORDER last year. This 
report is an example of the good 
work being done not only by Bang-
kok Sanitarium & Hospital but all 
our medical institutions. Such Med-
ical Evangelism often pays off in 
many unexpected ways and places. 
We do appreciate the good work 
of our medical institutions in South-
east Asia Union. 
—H. W. Bedwell 
V. L. Bretsch 
THE Vietnam Signs Press has 
reached another milestone in its 
attempt to keep up with the in-
creasing demand by our Vietnamese 
Literature Evangelists to keep a 
good supply of books ready for 
distribution. On February 18, at 
the time of the annual Board of 
Management meeting of the Press, 
Pastor H. W. Bedwell addressed 
members of the committee and a 
goodly number of Saigon's litera-
ture evangelists and press workers, 
in dedicating this newest piece of 
equipment to the speedy finishing 
of the gospel, through the printed 
page, in South Vietnam. Pastor V. 
L. Bretsch, Union Publishing Sec-
retary, offered the dedication pray-
er. As an interesting sidelight to the 
progress of the work in Vietnam, 
it was noted that during the period 
of time from January through July 
of 1965 only 242 copies of the book 
Steps to Christ in Vietnamese had 
been sold. But from August through 
January of 1966 more than 2,400 
copies of this same book have been 
delivered to customers. This is a 
good indication of what the future 
holds for our literature work in 
Vietnam. Now is the time to put 
forth every effort to see that our 
message reaches as many as possible 
while the doors are open. 
on how to stop smoking. 
Dr. Waddell and Pastor Guild 
held classes for the pastors of the 
Vietnam Mission each morning dur-
ing the week, instructing them in 
the principles of health evangelism 
in connection with the preaching 
of the three angels' messages. 
put forth by Pastors Guild, Chong 
and others. 
Every one present sensed the 
presence of the Holy Spirit in our 
midst and all departed with the 
determination to accomplish greater 
things for God than has ever been 
accomplished in the past. 
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THE MESSENGER �
March-April, 1966 
WE Would See Jesus" was the 
theme for the Week of Prayer 
at the Sunnyhill and Ayer Manis 
schools in Sarawak during the 
month of March. Beginning first at 
Sunnyhill on March 7-12, and the 
following week at Ayer Manis from 
the 14-19, a series of topics centered 
around the theme wel; presented. 
At Sunnyhill, nearly eight hun-
dred students formed three groups 
and entered the chapel at different 
periods in the morning because the 
chapel is not large enough to ac-
commodate all at one time. A large 
number of these young people come 
from non-SDA homes, and it was 
apparent that the decisions they 
faced were not easy. During the 
afternoon counseling periods a few 
brave young men ventured out to 
talk over their problems. They in-
dicated that campus discussion of 
the daily topics was going on out- 
side the classroom. A goodly num-
ber of young people made their 
decision to follow Christ and the 
teachers at Sunnyhill are now fol-
lowing up with special Bible classes 
for this group. 
Ayer Mani has a total enroll-
ment of abd& five hundred and 
fifty. Here again we decided to 
divide them into three groups be-
cause of limited space, and it work-
ed out real well. The largest group 
came from the mission section 
where a total of about three hun-
dred attended our meetings. There 
was not one baptized member 
among these young people but at 
the close of the meetings more than 
Week of Prayer hi Sarawak's School 
V. L. Bretsch, Union 
Publishing Secretary 
Students gaving the chapel at the 
close of one of the morning meet-
ings during the recent Week of 
Prayer at Sunny Hill School. 
The students at Sunny Hill School 
assemble each morning at eight to 
sing their school song and national 
anthem before classes commence. 
Mr. Peter Ho, Ayer Manis' teacher, 
leads the students in an active song 
service during the recent Ayer Ma-
nis School Week of Prayer meetings 
conducted by V. L. Bretsch. 
Many of these students at Ayer 
Manis come from Muslim, Catholic, 
or Buddhist families, but all have 
made their decision to follow Christ 
as Seventh-day Adventists and are 
now in a Bible study class preparing 
for baptism. 
(HEIST ARTiF /Al 
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Pictured above is the recent Southeast Asia Union College graduating 
class of 1965 on the chapel platform following the graduation service. 
Pastor Garth Thompson, the acting president, is standing at the left of 
the back row and Pastor H. W. Bedwell at the right. The graduates are 
as follows: Back row, left to right; Jimmy Khng, Peter Ho, Charles 
Gaban. Front row: Lee Tsai Teik, class vice-president; Mrs. Han Siew 
Lan, Koh, Kan Song, class president; Choo Pek Lim, Sgt. at arms; 
Jonthan Ng, class pastor. Elsie Wong, class secretary, is not in the photo. 
March-April, 1966 �
THE MESSENGER �
7 
one hundred signed decision cards 
for further Bible Study in prepara-
tion for accepting Jesus as their 
personal Saviour. 
The theme song fit in beautifully 
with our theme. "Only Believe" 
could be heard each day in three 
languages. . . . English, Japanese 
and Malay. The song services were 
very heart-warming and appreciated 
by everyone. 
At Ayer Manis, evening services 
were also held at which about three 
hundred attended. On Friday eve-
ning after a short devotional, an 
experience hour, giving everyone an 
opportunity to show their personal 
appreciation to the Lord for His 
goodness, was received very well. 
For many of these young people, 
it was their first experience and not 
easy to stand to testify. But the 
teachers set a good example and 
soon many were standing and giving 
their first testimony in this manner. 
All in all, the writer gained the 
greatest inspiration and we thank 
God for His Wonderful Blessings. 
History of Ayer Manis School 
(From page 2.) 
pointed principal in 1939 until the 
school was closed by the arrival of 
occupation forces in World War 2. 
The school was reopened in 1947 
with Pastor Elam Sinaga as the 
principal. Soon a goodly number 
were enrolled. A. L. Pauner served 
as principal from 1951 to 1953 
when Miss Nancy Sinaga succeeded 
him. In 1955 Lawrence Pohan, son 
of the first principal, was appointed 
principal of Ayer Manis. Later 
when he went to Australia to finish 
his education, Daniel Wong served 
for a short time as principal of the 
school. Pastor A. R. Musgrave join-
ed the school in 1961 and efforts 
were made to upgrade it into a 
junior secondary school leading to 
Form 3. The enrollment doubled 
and trebled. 
When Pastor Musgrave returned 
to the United States, Lee Hall was 
acting principal until the arrival of 
Pastor C. A. Ortner, the present 
principal. After much work and 
planning and with the assistance of 
the union and the Far Eastern Divi-
sion, the new classroom building 
has been finished in its first stage 
and is now opened officially (March 
21, 1966) for use. Ayer Manis 
School has now been upgraded to 
Form 4 this year and we hope to 
Form 5 next year. This beautiful 
and imposing edifice stands as a 
land mark for the promotion of 
Christian education and the prin-
ciples and propagation of the gospel 
of Christ's second coming. 
Officials who participated in the 
dedication service of the new S.D.A. 
Church in Sandakan, Sabah Sab-
bath afternoon, September 18, 1965: 
(Left to right): Cheah Sin Boo, Sec-
retary-Treasurer of the Sabah Mis-
sion; V. L. Kon, Retired Pastor 
from Bangkok visiting his old home 
town of Sandakan; H. W. Bedwell, 
President of Southeast Asia Union; 
C. P. Sorensen, President of Far 
Eastern Division; Andrew Peters, 
President of Sabah Mission; Chin 
Kong Loi, Pastor of Sandakan 
Church; Samuel Tsai, Pastor of 
Jesselton Church. 
Stuidakag Church Dedkation 
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THE MESSENGER �
March-April, 1966 
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New S. D. A. Church at Sandakan, 
Sabah which was dedicated Sabbath 
afternoon, September 18, 1965. Pas-
tor C. P. Sorensen, President of 
Far Eastern Division, presented the 
dedicatory sermon; Pastor H. W. 
Bedwell, President of Southeast Asia 
Union, offered the dedicatory pray-
er. Other parts of the program: The 
Welcome, by Pastor Andrew Peters; 
Instrumental Solo, by Mr. Cheah 
Sin Boo; History of the Church, 
and Scripture Reading, Pastor Chin 
Kong Loi; Act of Dedication, Pas-
tor Samuel Tsai; Prayer, Pastor V. 
L. Kon. 
Interior View of new Sandakan 
Church. Pastor H. W. Bedwell 
presented the first Sabbath morning 
sermon in this new church. Pastor 
Chin Kong Loi translated. 
The building on the left above the 
church is the frame house in which 
the members have been meeting for 
church services for the past several 
years. One has a fine view of the 
Town of Sandakan and the sea 
from the church site.