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Monday, March 19, 1984 / Volume 83, Number 19 / Angwin, California / Official Biweekly of the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Two South American Countries To Benefit
From March 31 Special Projects Offering
KINDERGARTEN, PRIMARY and JUNIOR divisions of the Camarillo,
California, Church went beyond their Christmas money giving last Thir-
teenth Sabbath. Hearing that children in Uganda were wishing for
English books, they sorted through their own libraries for reading
materials to share. Associate Superintendent Helen Clarke shipped 60
pounds of books to C. M. Aliddeki, executive director of the Western
Uganda Field, for distribution. Former missionaries anticipate that
parents will also share in the reading—that they would welcome even
old Reader’s Digests, just to have materials to read in English.
Review Announces Book Contest
Prizes of up to $750 are being
offered in the Review and Herald’s
Write Now II book contest.
Submissions are now being ac-
cepted for book manuscripts in
the category of practical Christian
living. New and published authors
are encouraged to share their ideas
on how to stay healthy spiritually,
physically, emotionally, socially
and mentally.
“We have found that most
Christians are interested in these
areas. We want to publish what
our church members need, and we
are looking for new and exciting
approaches to how to live the
Christian life,”’ explains Richard
Parts Needed for
Braille Watches
Has your non-digital watch
stopped ticking? If you’re think-
ing about discarding it, please
DON’T. The parts can be used to
repair braille watches for blind
persons.
In cooperation with the Pros
and Cons Braille Unit, a program
at the Nebraska State Peniten-
tiary, Christian Record Braille
Foundation is contributing spring-
wound watches so that parts can
be utilized to repair braille watches.
The Braille Unit, manned en-
tircly by inmates, produces text-
books and other reading materials
in braille, in addition to repairing
braille typewriters and watches.
Send your non-digital watches,
working or not, to Wendell
Carpenter, Christian Record
Braille Foundation, 4444 South
52nd, Lincoln, NE 68506.
Coffen, book editor at the Review
and Herald.
All entries in the book
manuscript contest must be sub-
mitted by July 30, 1984. Winners
will be announced in November
1984. Judges include several well-
known authors and editors, such
as Penny Estes Wheeler, Dan
Fahrbach (editor of Insight), and
Kyna Hinson (assistant editor of
Message).
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Two countries of South
America will benefit from the
special projects offering to be
taken in Pacific Union Sabbath
schools March 31.
Secondary schools will be
erected in north Chile and east
Brazil, and new chapels will house
the burgeoning congregations in
northern Chile, especially.
On the eastern coast of Brazil,
which occupies almost half of the
land mass of this Division, the
new boarding school near Salva-
dor will be known as Minas Gerais
Academy. Situated in the north-
ern portion of the strip of land
which runs much of the length of
South America, the Chilean con-
struction will replace an inade-
quate day school operated by the
Central Church in Antofagasta.
Chapels for Chile are a necessi-
ty in this country which, though
still predominantly Roman Catho-
lic, 1s attracting increasing
numbers of evangelical Christian
groups. In fact, in all of the South
UNDER THE MOTTO “Build stations where possible and lease time
where necessary,” Adventist World Radio is attempting to cover the
world with a message of hope. Providing programming to accommodate
a multiplicity of languages and cultures demands a utilization of help
wherever it can be found. Here African students at Andrews University
prepare programs in French for Francophone countries in Africa. It is
not too late to give in support of AWR’s unending ministry.
American Division there is need of
beginning construction of one new
chapel each day to house the
growth during these Thousand
Days of Reaping.
Brazilians credit widespread
church schools for a large portion
of their growth and membership.
Marking the establishment of
Brazil College in 1915, the year
Ellen White died, they point to the
fact that they have followed her
counsels for the erection of
schools even though she had no
specific admonitions for their na-
tion. They now have 10 boarding
schools and hundreds of day
educational centers built up over
the past 63 years.
Members in Brazil have no
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Religion in Media Awards Adventists
Seventh-day Adventists were
well represented in recent awards
by Religion in Media, a Los
Angeles-based organization which
annually judges media produc-
tions for moral and religious
values.
Receiving its fifth ‘‘Angel”’
award—for its six-part miniseries
on ‘‘Roots of the Bible’’—It Is
Written was honored also for be-
ing the only religious telecast to
receive five for regularly sched-
uled programming. It was the
third consecutive year, as well.
In the television category, the
Heritage Singers also were given
an ‘‘Angel.”’ Thirty other
‘““Angels’” went to the networks
and other religious organizations.
MARCH
IS
Music Month
at your
Adventist Book Center
Specials in both
traditional and contemporary
religious music.
Sunspot Productions, the Voice
of Prophecy spot ministry headed
by John Robertson, received a
“Certificate of Excellence and
Merit’ for a collection of ‘‘com-
mercials’’ emphasizing Christmas.
This was the only Adventist award
in the radio category.
Of the 10 listings in the albums
category, four went to Adventist
artists. An ‘‘Angel’”’ went to Big
Jim McDonald for ‘‘A Brand New
Love for Christmas.” ‘“‘Cer-
tificates of Merit’ were given to
“‘Spirit of Praise’’ by the Heritage
Singers and ‘‘Favorites through
the Years’’ to The Heralds quartet
sponsored by the Spoken Word of
Oxnard, California.
“Secrets of the Kingdom,” the
creation of Jeff Wood and E. J.
Irish and produced by the William
Jeffrey Group of Camarillo,
California, was judged the best
children’s record.
George Vandeman and all the
artists involved expressed pleasure
at being used by God to bring this
recognition to His work.
PLANS FOR THE ANNUAL ASI CONVENTION are being finalized for
April 25-29 at the Soquel Adventist Convention Center near Santa Cruz.
Special speakers include Sang Lee, M.D., an allergy specialist and
Weimar health educator; Bruce Boyer, an Escondido economics adviser:
and William Johnsson, editor of the Adventist Review. Officers and
board members invite ASI members and those who would like to be to
share the weekend. Concluding leadership for the current year are
(kneeling) Sara Deacon, Oceanside; Robert Fillman, Weimar; Tom
Zapara, Irvine; Russ Potter, Arroyo Grande; and Dale McBride, El Cajon.
Standing are Caris Lauda, Desert Hot Springs; Rose Marie Borris, Castro
Valley; Calvin Osborn, Riverside; Paul Damazo, Riverside; Art Wilson,
Carson City,
Nevada; Juanita Boyson,
Modesto; Jim Cunnington,
Westlake Village; Helen Hickok, Santa Cruz; Max Torkelsen, Glendale;
Ora Mclean, Glendale; and John Weidner, Temple City.