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?18 100 Years of Care

and Healing

As it celebrates a signif-cant milestone, the WhiteMemorial Medical Centerlooks boldly to the uture.

14 The Heart of WorshipElEzEr GzalEz

Its not just a couple hourson Sabbath morning.

22 The Fight of FaithEllE G. WhE

Weve all been conscripted;but none o us fghts alone.

24 Alternative AdventistEducation

Christian educationor those whovebeen marginalized

4 Letters

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8 World News &Perspectives

13 Give & Take

17 Transformation Tips

29 Dateline Moscow

30Ask the Doctors

31 Reections

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It Starts HereHow much do those toddlersget rom Sabbath school? Morethan most o us imagine.

The White MemorialMedical Center is poisedto provide health care tothose who need it most.

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Head Scratchers andan Inspiring Stor

A couple o things in theJanuary 24, 2013,AdventistReviewmay have let readers

scratching their heads. GinaWahlens article Whats aBody to Do? quoted FredHardinge, M.D., as saying,Further, we know geneticallythat the choices o our parentsand grandparents . . . may beimpacting us and causing su-ering today. To my knowl-edge, genetics does nottransmit knowledge to us;that is, we do not genetically

know anything. I believe thatHardinge meant we knowthat genetically the choices. . .; i.e., the that was mis-placed, which changed themeaning. Richard M. David-sons article, And There WasGossip in Heaven, reerred toa table o insights on Eden assanctuary, but the table wasnot included in the article.Just a couple o glitches in

two otherwise-ne articles.Also, I especially appreci-

ated C. D. Brooks KidsViewstory, Who Finished theBuilding? What an inspiringaccount o Gods aithulnessin ullling His promise:those who honor me I willhonor (1 Sam. 2:30).

CURTIS WILTSE

Bloomington, Indiana

Religious Freedom in

America, and MoreMy thanks or Nicholas P.

Millers article ReligiousFreedom in America (Jan.17, 2013). Miller has given usa third option between thesecular let and the religiousright.

In that same issue, I thor-oughly enjoyed reading Mar-tin Proebstles DivineAssassin. I would like to see

more articles along theselines, which will exegeticallytackle dicult texts. Thedonkey moti Proebstlepointed out was quiteinsightul.

And thank you or print-ing Gina Wahlens articleWhats a Body to Do? (Jan.

24), in which she shared withus her bout with cancer. Thehistorical survey o EllenWhites counsel regardingdrugs and modern medicaltreatments was rereshing.

I also enjoyed Allan R.Handysides Coping WithCancer (Jan. 24). The dis-tinctions he made betweenalternative therapies, pre-ventative, and curative mea-sures were very helpul. Iwould also like to thankHandysides or having thecourage to stand up and callthis renewed appeal toward

natural remedies as a cureor cancer what it really is,namely, dishonest, negli-gent, . . . and dangerous.

JONATHAN PEINADO

via e-mail

Kudos or the excellent ea-

ture Religious Freedom inAmerica, by Nicholas P.Miller (Jan. 17)! Millers his-torical look at the religiousheritage o American politics,and his explanation oAdventisms true birth-right, was outstanding. Itwas rereshing to have some-one articulate so well what Ihave been eeling or a longtimethat there really is a

middle ground politically,that there is a dierence

between spiritual moralityand civil morality, and wedo not have to espouse all othe views o the ar Right inorder to be a Christian, evenan Adventist Christian.Miller is correct in realizingthat the compromises hesuggests are not going to sat-isy the extremists on either

end o the spectrum ully,but would provide at least acommon language or dis-cussing moral concerns.

Its unortunate thatextreme elements seem tohave taken over our coun-trys government, and ourleaders in Washington areunlikely to take Millersadvice (even i they were toactually read the article), but

I dont see that changing.There are so many signs thatour earths history is rapidlydrawing to a close. The politi-cal landscape o America isjust one more indication othe times we are living in. Iexpect the Reviewwill takesome heat or publishing this

article, but thank you somuch or printing it and

bringing comort to those ous in the middle whosometimes see shades o grayrather than viewing every-thing in stark black or white.

KAREN COTE

Gray, Tennessee

Tried and True

I really enjoyed SandraBlackmers editorial regard-ing change (see Tried andTrue, Jan. 24). Its like amodern-day parable that onecan draw rom to bring homea point. Jesus used manyparables, and I like the wayBlackmer did the same.

Regarding change, manyhumans think they have tohave the latest gadget, car,etc., when the one they havestill unctions. Its good tosee that Blackmers car stillruns with all those miles, andit looks mighty pretty sinceher husband had it detailedand a ew repairs done. Justgoes to show that we dontalways need the latest model

or up-to-date gadget.Our 1991 Honda Civic has

420,000 miles on it, and itsstill going strong. Ourmechanic told us that theydont build Hondas todaythe way they did back then.So a word to Blackmer: hangon to your Honda Prelude! Ithas served you well and willprobably continue to do soor a long time!

JUDy WINKLE

Hedgesville, West Virginia

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international deliberations.I had the privilege o

attending the ordination oour ministerial candidatesat the Loma Linda Universitychurch in Caliornia this past

year, when the ordained min-isters in the congregation

were invited to come to theplatorm and be part o theordination prayer and dedi-cation. With the otherordained ministers, I tookpartit was an honor andsacred privilege or us. Twoo the our ministers arewomeneach with uniquegits and all our with mov-ing testimonies o their callto ministry. My concern is

the line in the article thatstates, At present, thechurch does not ordainwomen to ministry.

Does this mean that the twowomen ordained in LomaLinda are not ordained asministers o the AdventistChurch? I believe that a cleardenition o the church is inorder and must be considered

by the members o the TOSC.DANIEL C. RObLES

Simi Valley, California

Your concern is valid. The

Pacifc Union, in whose territory

you attended the ordination, is

one o two unions within the

North American Division that

have recently taken actions that

dier rom decisions voted by the

world church in 1990 and

1995.Editors.

Womens ordination is nota biblical teaching, butwomen could become lead-ers as the prophets, judges,etc., did in the past. In ourchurch, leaders have to opentheir eyes. Women can bepresident o the GC, divi-sions, unions, and coner-ences, but not through

scientist at the CaliorniaInstitute o Technology dur-ing World War II. Then thewar ended in 1945 and the

project olded, so I was with-out a job. I got married andstarted looking or a teach-ing job, but there were noneavailable. I needed a job, andin desperation decided to trymy hand as a literature evan-gelist. Door-to-door sellingis rigorous work, and it wasoten discouraging, thensomething would happen toencourage me to keep going.

I vividly remember one othose events. At the time Iwas selling The Bible Story, byUncle Arthur Maxwell, andas I approached a humblecottage, I prayed that Godwould give me a sale. Iknocked on the screen door,and when the lady o thehouse appeared, I explainedto her that I was selling chil-drens Bible stories. She

inormed me that her sonwas so addicted to TV that hewouldnt listen to a Biblestory. I asked i I could read astory to her, and she agreed.So I started reading to herthrough the screen door andpretty soon the boy was lis-tening right beside her.When I was through reading,I asked him i he would like

his mother to read some sto-ries to him, and he said,Yes. The surprised mother

bought a set on the spot.What a lit to know that Biblestories trumped TV!

JOHN MC CONNELL

Citrus Heights, California

Theolog ofOrdinationCommittee

Thank you or printing thelist o the Theology o Ordi-nation Study Committee(TOSC; see Mark A. KellnersTheology o OrdinationStudy Committee NamesReleased, Jan. 10). Now Imhoping and praying that the

General Conerence, in twoyears, will not have a repeato the spiritual condition othe conerence o 1888. Maythe Lord prevail!

VIRGINIA E. MyERS

Lincoln, Nebraska

I read with interest the Jan-uary 10 report publishingthe names o the individualswho are charged with the

responsibility o givingstudy to the issue o ordina-tion to ministry withoutregard to gender in the Sev-enth-day Adventist Church. Iam condent that they alllove the Lord and they alllove the church deeply. AndIm sure they are committedto the mission o the churchworldwide.

The last paragraph o the

article let me with a degreeo concern, particularly theline that reads: At present,the church does not ordainwomen to ministry, ollowingvotes at General Conerencesessions in 1990 and 1995 onthe question, where the issuewas a major ocus o the

ordination. In the AdventistChurch there is the need tochange the policy so thatleadership positions ochurch organizations can beopen to everyone who isqualied, not only toordained pastors. Our orga-

nization should lead pastorsand laypersons together. Ourorganization is not Catholic,and this structure has beenaround or 150 years. Weneed the change and reor-mation. I hope the TOSC con-siders this.

JASON KIM

Berrien Springs, Michigan

Correction

In Richard M. Davidsonsarticle, And There Was Gos-sip in Heaven (Jan. 24), weneglected to include a tabledisplaying insights on Edenas sanctuary. We regret theerror. Please visit www.adventistreview.org/issue.php?issue=2013-1503&page=22 to read the articleand see the table.

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Editorials

QutionRESPECTING GODS qUESTIONS MAKES THE ETERNAL DIFFERENCE:Where are you? (Gen. 3:9). Where is your brother Abel? (Gen. 4:9). Instead, Cain triedsidestepping, or brushing God aside, with a question o his own: Am I responsible or Abel? It

was a rather inauspicious beginning to human asking.Inauspicious, but not inconsequential, as in: Hows things? Do you want ries with that?

Triviality is no prerequisite or human tragedy: Who is [Yahweh] . . . ? (Ex. 5:2). Is it I? (Matt.26:25, KJV). What is truth? (John 18:38). Major, tragic questions, posed by Egypts pharaoh,Jesus CFO, Romes Judean procurator, all characters o major tragedy destined to become memo-rials o disgrace, because o arrogance and stupid genius and cowardice: undertaking responsi-

bilities no human need shoulderplaying God in Yahwehs place; believing human beings canoutwit Godby making a prot on the sale o Jesus; seeking to escape an inevitable decisionadecision on the question What shall I do with Jesus?

Last December Paul Young told National Public Radios [NPR] All Things Considered that lossesin the ace o evil . . . ask some o the best questionsquestions about why i God is good andpowerul, why didnt God stop this.1

One example o tragic loss: a parent losing a child. True, parents are not supposed to bury theirchildren. It is a disorder o nature. Young could not know how many would be asking just thosequestions or just that reason in two weeks time. His book, The Shack, that made him amous, isa novel that had sold 18 million copies by the time o his interview. Thirteen days ater NPR broad-cast his interview, the world heard o Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut: 20innocents, 6 and 7 years old, slaughtered all at once, shot multiple times one morning at school.Men wept in public; the world groaned (in travail?); mothers and athers, rst responders andrst-graders, asked why.

Why? Guns in America? That very day 22 children were attacked by a knie-wielder at anotherschool 8,000 miles away in China. Why? Knives in China? The ormulation o a question, KarlMarx has optimistically said, is its solution.2 How much more horribly, miserably, tragicallywrong could Marx be about the particular question he thought he could solve in 1843the ques-

tion o the German Jew?While optimisticand cynicalAmerican and Chinese, ancient, modern, and postmodern

talking heads blunder, founder, and stumble in the search or constitutional and uniquelynational answers, unthinkable evil orces questions we ail to solve again and again, provingMarx and the world o intellect incapable o saving answers. And while we cogitate, legislate,medicate, and ail, God, whom we would sidestep, outwit, avoid, or dey, puts His question: Why,why, why do you want to die? (see Eze. 18:31; 33:11).

Marx was so pathetically, wretchedly wrong about humans. He would have been so right i hehad been thinking o God. For when God ormulates a question, He knows its answer. Why will

you die when you can live orever? Why die when you can have Jesus? The question is put or oursake. We need answers because we are creatures. Divine inquiry is dierent rom creaturely ques-tioning. God never asks because He is uninormed. He asks because we need His questions. He

asks because His questions can help. He asks so we can get answers. He asks so we can get Jesus.When He asks, we should pay attention. Not try to sidestep, or browbeat, or wash our hands inhope o avoidance; or dey. Respecting Gods questions makes the eternal dierence.n

1 http://m.npr.org/news/Books/166026305.2 http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/.

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Diving DitactdExERCISE WAS IMPORTANT TO 55-yEAR-OLD DAVE MUSLOVSKI, WHOwas out or his nine-mile morning walk. Whitney Yaeger, 19 years old, looked down or about 10seconds while driving. Texting, she hit Muslovski, who later died rom his injuries. Why would

you take your eyes o the road? Muslovskis wie, Denise, asked.1

According to the Rock Centerreport, people know that theyre gambling with their saety. In aKansas University study they shared, 97 percent o students admitted to texting while drivingand they said it was about the most dangerous thing to do while driving. Yet they do it anyway.Texting while driving is a dangerous and deliberate choice, not an accident.

We ool ourselves into thinking maybe its not so bad, says Kansas University cognitive psy-chology proessor Paul Atchley. Bing, goes the alert, and someone wants to talk to [you] . . . itgives you a little rush o dopamine.2 The need or that good eeling overrides the knowledge thatdoing this is unsae.

Common sense should tell us its not a good thing to do. But it seems that we need to be con-nectedand eel validatedand were trying to do more with the same amount o time. Our needshave blinded us to the dangers o using devices to communicate while driving. More than once driv-

ers have swerved, almost hitting my car. Ive looked over to see ngers tapping keysand their eyesocused on a phone screen.Ive done it beorebut even typing those two characters OK wasnt.

Consider this editorial a public service announcement. Please dont text while driving. Dontdrive distracted.

Spiritual application? Quotes above apply.n

1 Inormation rom the Fatal Distraction, January 10, 2013, segment o NBCs Rock Centernews show.

2 Ibid.

Say I Agai!

Photos and quotes are courtesy of www.blacksdahistory.org. Visit the site for more information on African-American Adventists.

E. E. ClEvElAnd

I have seen God, for so long, do so much, with so little, I now believe He can do

anything with nothingmeaning me.Pastor, Evangelist, and Former Associate Ministerial Director for the Ministerial Association (1954-1977

This month we remember the words from

some Adventist African-Americans.

BEn CArSon

Happiness doesnt result from what we get, but from what we give.Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital

G. E. PEtErS

I am not a radical. I am not an agitator. Nothing is accomplished without God.

Pardon my personal reference, but I have, through the help of God, brought in

about 3,000 souls. In one meeting I baptized 145 without stopping. At the close of

the meeting 250 souls were won to Christ. God has given me the ability to lead. I

suppose that I have erected more churches than any of the brethren, but yet I am

standing for progress today. . . . Who am I to say that we should have Colored conferences? What-

ever it is that it takes to bring classes of Negroes into this message, that is the thing that I am after.On the possibility of regional conferences, April 8, 1944

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n I N T E R - A M E R I CA

Advntit Chuch Lad rnwCommitmnt to spiitual rvival

At Holy Convocation, year of lay action celebrated

ByLIbNA STEVENS, assistant director of communication,Inter-American Division, reporting from Miami, Florida

TOP SEVENTH-DAy Adventist leadersoverseeing the ast-growing member-ship throughout the church in Inter-

America gathered to pray, reviewstrategies, and renew their commitmentto spiritual revival and reormation dur-ing a program called Holy Convocation,which took place January 21-23, 2013, atthe Miami, Florida, headquarters o theInter-American Division (IAD). The meet-ings set in motion a year dedicated tocelebrating the work o thousands o lay-people throughout the region.

This is not a new gathering, nor

another meeting ull o seminars, noranother picnic, said Israel Leito, IADpresident, as he spoke to the more than

250 church leaders gathered. We arehere to help you help the church, tocome together in dedication to the Lord,to recommit our hearts to be led by Him,and serve so the church can progresswith greater zeal toward the work o theLord in readiness or His coming.

The convocation aimed at urtheringspiritual leadership in an atmosphereo revival and reormation, an atmo-sphere the church has been ostering

or the past two years, explained AbnerDe Los Santos, an IAD vice president incharge o overseeing member retentionand spiritual revival and reormation.

Our goal is to continue maintainingthe healthy spiritual leadership we needin studying the Word o God daily, set-ting aside time or prayer every day andto monitor a good orientation towardGod, amily, church and community thatwill help us witness in the best way pos-sible, said De Los Santos.

Speaking via videoconerence, TedN. C. Wilson, president o General Coner-ence o Seventh-day Adventists, thankedIAD leaders or their committed work inrevival and reormation and their role incontinuing to ocus on reaching the citiesleading others to the oot o the crossand the Lords soon coming.

The three-day event remindedregional and local church leaders tocontinue to nurture a spiritual revival

STANDING IN COMMITMENT: srael Leito, president o te AD, stands wit union and regional leaders as nter-Americas holyConvocation begins, January 21, 2013.

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environment among the 3.6 millionmembers through a number o special

messages ocused on prayer, the studyo the Bible, and testiying o the gospel.

ngel Manuel Rodrguez, ormerdirector o the Adventist world churchsBiblical Research Institute, spoke toleaders refecting on the important les-sons ound in the book o Samuel:dependence on Gods guidance throughprayer when acing challenges andproblems in leading Gods people.

In order to be an eective leader,prayer has to be a liestyle, said Rodr-

guez. Your long experience as anadministrator will never be enough . . .

you will need every moment o yourwork to be in communion with God.

Rodrguez reminded leaders that

prayer is vital in leadership and asGods appointed leaders, they must seethemselves as empty vessels so the Lordcan do the work He wants to do throughthem and in others.

Evangelist Mark Finley, a specialassistant to the General Conerencepresident, spoke about leaders beinged daily with the Holy Scriptures.

You will nd many challenges as anadministrator, said Finley, but i youwant to be lled with the Holy Spirit,

saturate your mind with the Word oGod, saturate your mind with the les-sons o Christ.

The pulpit must be a place thatinspires our members to read GodsWord, added Finley.

Finley pointed out methods o study-ing the Bible coupled with prayer toguide laypeople and others to see artherin carrying out the mission o the church.

Top IAD church leaders led severalpanel discussions on evaluating peror-

mance and ways o keeping the spiritualrevival and reormation emphasis reshthroughout the territory in the coming

months and years.We must keep the church ocused on

spiritual revival and reormation, thevision o a constancy in prayer, thatvision o the Word o God, to prepare apeople or His coming, because theelds are ripe, said Leito during a dis-cussion segment.

Attendees were able to see the growtho the church numerically and nan-cially through special reports by the topthree executive administrators o the

LIFE OF PRAYER: ngel anuel odr-guez, ormerly o te Adventist worldcurcs Biblical esearc nstitute, spoketo leaders on te importance o makingprayer a liestyle.

DIVISION DELEGATES: Curc leaders packed te Bender Arcbold Auditorium at te nter-American Division eadquarters in iami,florida, during te holy Convocation event.

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EMPHASIS ON THE WORD: vangelistark finley, assistant to te president ote Adventist world curc, stressed teneed or leaders to be saturated wit teWord o God as tey motivate curcmembers to study te Bible daily.



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church in the Inter-American Division.Church leaders rom Inter-Americas

22 unions, or regions, reported on theprogress and activities surroundingrevival and reormation and their

impact during the past two years.The event was highlighted with sev-

eral daily prayer sessions ocusing onthe ministry o the amily, youth, chil-dren, and laypeople, or active members.

For Richard James, president or thechurch in Guyana, the convocation wasthe inspiring push he was excited totake home as he headed back to his teamo leaders overseeing the church there.

With some 35 district pastors shep-herding more than 180 churches and

congregations, corporate prayer andstudy o the Word o God has been keyto successul revival and reormation ina membership o more than 58,000 inGuyana, James explained.

It was clear with this event that asleaders, we must model a lie o prayer

based on aith and condence in a Godwho hears and answers prayer, Jamessaid. Modeling Christian spiritual lead-ership to church members has been a

work o setting aside time with churchleaders every rst Wednesday o themonth away rom the headquartersoce to pray and study the Word o Godor three hours since 2011, according to

James.It has brought us to become better

spiritual leaders and has resulted in avisible response to this spiritual revivalamong our membership, said James.He is heading a new plan to set asidetime to pray or church administratorsevery Monday, as well as mobilizedepartment and ministry leaders to visitpolice commissioners, community lead-ers, schools, and hospital patients topray with them every month.

For Jos De Gracia, president o thechurch in East Panama, the convocationwas an opportunity to see the unityamong church leaders, departments, andministries all under joint eorts towardspiritual revival and reormation.

This was an extraordinary event thattunes us with the world church, movingorward in the same direction, said DeGracia, who heads a team o 33 pastorsministering to some 35,000 church

members in the eastern portion o Pana-mas capital, Panama City.

De Gracia explained that the commit-ment o laypeople involved in spiritualrevival has been instrumental in plant-

ing some 32 congregations in PanamaCity in just the last year.

Our leaders and members are pursu-ing a closer relationship with the Lord,and that has led them to engage moreactively in sharing the gospel in theircommunities, De Gracia said.

Previous to Inter-Americas Holy Con-vocation, church leaders met or a spe-cial consecration Communion serviceor a committed and spiritually revivedmembership across the territory.

The coming weeks and months willinclude territory-wide activities gearedtoward a spiritual revival and reorma-tion during the Year o the Laity celebra-tions, including a virtual council orthousands o church elders, evangelisticdeployment, discipleship celebration,and more.

For additional inormation on activitiesduring Inter-Americas 2013 Year o theLaity, visit http://2013.interamerica.org.n

CONSECRATED BY PRAYER: nter-American leaders pray in commitment as te holy Convocation concluded.

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n PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Pay and suppot Flood In fo Bund enginByJARROD STACKELROTH, South Pacific Division Record, reportingfrom Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia

LINDEN MILLIST, the Adventist Avi-ation Services (AAS) engineer whoreceived burns over 50 percent ohis body when a uel tank exploded,is in stable condition ater receivinghis rst skin grat operation.

At deadline Millist was still beingheavily sedated, but some o theswelling to his ace had gone down,and he had had skin grat opera-tions on his lower legs. His doctors

are reportedly positive about hisprogress so ar.

Prayers and messages o supporthave fooded in rom around the world on the South PacicDivisions Record magazine Web site, as well as on the Face-

book page Prayer or Linden Millist & Bri NortonHisanc & amily. (www.acebook.com/PrayerForLindenBri).A message posted on the page expressed appreciation at theoverwhelming response. Thank you so much or all o yourprayers and support; Im sorry I havent been able to

respond to each personally, but Ihave passed on comments to Lin-den and let him know you are pray-ing or him; it means so much.

Lindens younger brother, Jared,arrived in Brisbane rom Norway,where he is serving as a student deanat an Adventist high school. Provi-dentially, Jared had already sched-uled a trip to Australia or a riendswedding.

Jorge Munoz, president o theSouth Queensland Conerence, vis-ited the hospital to pray with and

show his support o the amily.The amily has set up a GoFundMe account (www.

goundme.com/1wssao?) to receive donations. The moneywill go toward medical bills and rehab, lost wages or Lin-dens caregivers, car hire, ood, accommodation, and othercosts over the next ew months. So ar they have had morethan A$12,300 pledged online.n

INJURED WORER: creen capture o video inter-view eaturing Linden illist, an Adventist Aviation

ervices (AA) engineer, wo received burns to 50percent o is body wen a uel tank exploded. heis currently recovering rom is injuries.

n UNITED STATES

Advntit Hopital staff,Volunt Povid MdicalCa in HonduaFrom Hinsdale unit came basic, emergency,care, along with witnessing

ByJULIE bUSCH, regional director, public relations,Adventist Midwest Health, writing from Hinsdale, I llinois

MORE THAN 30 people representing theour hospitals o Adventist MidwestHealth traveled to Honduras to providemedical care and assistance to the resi-dents there.

The hospital representatives romAdventist Bolingbrook, Adventist Glen-Oaks, Adventist Hinsdale, Adventist LaGrange Memorial hospitals treatedmore than 1,200 patients in Honduras

January 20-27, 2013. The teampartnered with Hospital Adven-tista Valle de Angeles (Valley othe Angels Hospital), a 30-bedacility located in the town oValle de Angeles, which is aboutan hour rom Honduras capitalcity, Tegucigalpa. The hospital has beenone o the Global Partners o AdventistHealth International since 2005.

The group was made up o severalteams. The clinical team consisted o phy-sicians, nurses, and other sta, who

PATIENT CARE: eam member Jennier rdewraps a patients oot to protect er skin ulcersrom inection.

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MISSION TEAM: ta nurses and pysicians rom Adventist healt hinsdale in llinois,along wit volunteers, spread ealt and ealing in honduras.

treated and listened to each patients con-cerns. The pharmacy team provided vita-mins and other medications to thepatients. The Kids Camp ministry teamkept the children, who were on summervacation, entertained by painting theirnails and applying Christian tattoos that

said Jesus Loves Me on almost everychild. The team passed out crayons andcoloring pages, jump ropes and yo-yos,and helped children put puzzles together.

Two o the physicians on the teamDr. Ted Suchy, an orthopedic surgeon,and Dr. Lanny Wilson, an obstetrician/gynecologistwere able to perormsurgeries at the hospital. Wilson said heelt a God moment just beore his rstsurgery began. In the U.S., doctors andsta begin a procedure with a time

out, a patient saety tool during whichthe team veries the patient and proce-dure they are about to perorm.

But in Honduras, Wilson learned, theteam began with a prayer, and theyprayed or Wilson that he would help thepatient, and that she would recover ully.I elt empowered by the prayer and wasable to relax and do the procedure bet-ter, he said. God was on our side. Wewerent just doing it by ourselves.

VITAMIN DISTRIBUTION: e mission team delivered bottles o vitamins to cildren ina local orpanage.

As the team set up the clinic one day,Sharon Bowers went over to the repre-sentatives rom the local Seventh-dayAdventist church and told them that ithey ound anyone who had any spiri-tual needs, they should come and get

her, and she would pray or them.It wasnt two minutes later that some-

one was tapping me on the shoulder,

Bowers said. Every time I did a bloodpressure, someone was coming to get me.

So Bowers started asking people sittingon her triage bench, Do you want prayer?

Every single person said yes, shesaid. So ater lunch we added the ques-tion Do you want prayer? to the bot-tom o the intake sheet. The Spirit wasmoving and guiding us.

Adventist Midwest Health has takenpart in an annual mission trip since2006, traveling to such places as Costa

Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, and Honduras.These mission trips provide much

needed help to people and allow us toextend the healing ministry o Christinternationally, said John Rapp, vicepresident o ministries and mission orAdventist Midwest Health. None othat would be possible without thededication and commitment o thepeople who volunteer to take this tripevery year.n




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church signs

adventist lie

My daughter, Kaydin, not wanting to be let alone to takeher nap, kept asking me to stay to protect her. I said, Lets

say a prayer to God asking or His protection.

Ater the prayer Kaydin asked, Where does God live? How

long will it take Him to get here?

AUSMA INNEY, CaVllE, marylaD

A guest speaker at our church, Pastor Al Azevedo, recently

spoke on Daniel 3, the story o the three Hebrews who would

not bow down to Nebuchadnezzars golden statue. As Aze-

vedo repeated the story, he gave his opinion on how Jesus

came to be in the urnace, saying that as heaven was watch-

ing the proceedings, Gabriel oered to go down and help thethree Hebrews. At frst Jesus said, OK, described Azevedo,

but on second thought He said, No, wait, Ill handle this

Mysel! Praise God that He did!

PETER PEABODY, rVErDE, Calra

I saw this on a church marquee inChattanooga the other day:

Jesus built your bridge to heaven

with 2 pieces o wood and 3 nails.

LAMAR PHILLIPS, lEWah, EEEE

It was November 1984 that this sign grabbed my attention,

and I snapped a photograph o it. Consider it an ongoing chal-

lenge still, in 2013!

HERB PRITCHARD, Cala, lrDa

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orship is an importantconcept in the Bible. Inact, it is such animportant concept that

the Bible consistentlypresents it as one o the key actors thatseparate Gods true ollowers rom therest o humanity.1 For this reason it isimportant or Christians to understandwhat true worship is. We tend to ocuson the external maniestations o wor-ship: what we can hear, see, and eel; soissues around worship style naturallytend to orm the ocus o much o theunderstanding o worship or many peo-ple. However, what did the apostle Paul

understand the heart o worship to be?In Romans 12:1 Paul exhorts believers:

I appeal to you thereore, brothers, bythe mercies o God, to present your bod-ies as a living sacrice, holy and accept-able to God, which is your spiritualworship.2 The Greek phrase translatedas spiritual worship is a dicultphrase to translate into English. The KingJames Version translates this as reason-able service. Both o these translationsare reasonable attempts. Douglas Moo

suggests that it could also be translatedas true worship.3 In reality, that is whatthis passage is dealing with.

In Romans 12:1-3 Paul uses a clustero words that his readers would imme-diately have associated with worship.This marks the passage as one o Paulsmost in-depth discussions o worship.James Dunn notes that the opening oRomans 12 makes a stunning impact.For Paul deliberately evokes the lan-guage o the sacricial cult.4

Literal or Metaphorical?Many scholars have interpreted

Pauls language in Romans 12:1 asmerely being metaphorical.5 However,Paul was not merely describing theappropriate mental and spiritual atti-tudes that should accompany worship;nor was he simply drawing spirituallessonsPaul was creating somethingnew. As Dunn observes: For most o

by ELIEZER GONZALEZ

their contemporaries a religious associ-ation without cult center, withoutpriests, without sacrices, must haveseemed a plain contradiction in terms,

even an absurdity.6 Yet Pauls use olanguage shows that he was deliberately

breaking with the typical understand-ing o a religious community dependenton cult center, oce o priest, and act oritual sacrice.7

For Paul, all work on behal o the gos-

pel was priestly ministry or all believ-ers.8 Although the Temple ministry had

been limited to a special order o priests,the gospel ministry was a privilege and aresponsibility or all believers. The con-

cept o sacricial worship is central toPauls thought, although the processand the nature o the oering are nowunderstood dierently.9

Paul continues his argument inRomans 12 and denes what it meansto worship as a Christian. He arguesthat true worship does not necessarilymean substituting the Jewish Templecult with something else. Paul does notcriticize the priesthood or the Temple,and he does not condemn the rituals o

the Temple. We may even say that heviews the Temple cult positively in thesense that it supplies a model orChristian orms.10 However, this doesnot mean that Paul saw the Temple cultitsel as the appropriate orm o wor-ship or the believers in the churches heestablished. Paul uses the concepts othe Temple cult to redene what itmeans to worship as a Christian.

Romans 12 and PaulsIdea of Worship

Romans 12:1 has been described asthe hinge between the doctrinal and

ethical portions o Romans.11 Thechapter is careully constructed,12 and,rom a thematic and structural view-point, verses 3-8 are closely related toverses 1, 2. Indeed, verses 3-8 are anamplication o the living sacrice(the worship) that is appropriate as aresponse to divine grace. Trying tounderstand what Paul is saying in theseverses helps us to understand betterwhat worship is all about.

It is signicant that John Ziesler notes

that verse 9 is the ocus o the entirepassage, so that the exhortation to loveis the centre point o the whole passage;its centrality has been implicit since v. 1,and what now ollows can naturally beseen as loves outworking both withinthe Christian community (vv. 9-13) and

beyond its boundaries (vv. 14-21).13 Inthis regard Romans 12:5-8 should beseen as a summary o what Paul hadwritten earlier in 1 Corinthians 12-14.Pauls discussion o spiritual gits in his

First Epistle to the Corinthians is adescription o the practical outworkingo Pauls understanding o worship.Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians 12-14 areclosely connected, and what Paul wrotein Romans 12 should be understood inthe context o what he had earlier writ-ten in 1 Corinthians 12-14.

Romans 12 and1 Corinthians 12-14

The instructions that Paul gives to the

church at Corinth are, in Pauls words,or when you come together (1 Cor.14:26), and they are clearly instructionsthat have to do with how the churchshould worship. Pauls idea o worshipin 1 Corinthians 12-14 is based on thenotion o the church as the body oChrist (1 Cor. 12:12-19). Similarly, whenPaul discusses worship in Romans 12,he again grounds it in the concept o the

body o Christ, reminding the believers

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love (1 Cor. 13) lies atthe heart o Pauls descrip-

tion o worship in 1 Corinthians 12-14.As 1 Corinthians 13 indicates, withoutlove, worship is meaningless.

What Is Worship?Service, motivated by love, using the

spiritual gits that the Holy Spirit hasgiven to each believer, is at the core oPauls understanding o worship. Wor-ship is both active and interactive. Thisis rather dierent rom the passive ideao worship that some Christians have.Some people think that worship is theact o listening to a sermon, closing theeyes while someone prays, singing inchurch, and maybe simply attendingchurch. While these things can be parto worship, they are not ultimately what

worship is about. Indeed, the New Tes-tament concept o worship goes ar

beyond what happens in church ser-vices. It has to do with presenting our

bodies to God to be used by Him tobless and to serve others, both withinthe body o Christ and also as His repre-sentatives in the communities in whichwe live. This is not the result o wor-shipit is worship.

While the New Testament empha-sizes the importance o the believers

gathering together (Heb. 10:25), it doesnot limit worship to what happens atthose gatherings. In Pauls understand-ing, worship also has to do with liewherever we are. Ernst Ksemannexpressed it well when he wrote thatChristian worship does not consist owhat is practiced at sacred sites, atsacred times, and with sacred acts. . . . Itis the oering o bodily existence in anotherwise proane sphere. As some-thing constantly demanded this takes

place in daily lie. 15

Ellen Whites understanding o wor-ship agrees with that o Paul. She alsodenes true worship as that which isneither spasmodic nor reserved orspecial occasions.16 She writes thataithul work is more acceptable to Godthan the most zealous ormal worship.True worship consists in working

together with Christ. Prayers, exhorta-tions, and talk are cheap ruits, whichare requently tied on; but ruits that aremaniested in good works, in caring orthe needy, the atherless, and widows,are genuine, and grow naturally upon agood tree.17

Perhaps it is time or us as well to

embrace an understanding o what trueworship really is. The heart o worshipis the lie submitted to Christ in lovingservice. This is what it means to trulyworship God.n

1 See Rev. 14:6-12.2 Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations

in this article are rom The Holy Bible, English StandardVersion, copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a divi-sion o Good News Publishers. Used by permission. Allrights reserved.

3 Douglas Moo, The Epistle to the Romans, The NewInternational Commentary on the New Testament(Grand

Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996), p. 750.4 James D. G. Dunn, The Theology o Paul the Apostle(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), p. 543.

5 Maria-Zoe Petropoulou,Animal Sacrifce in AncientGreek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 B.C. to A.D.

200 (Oxord: Oxord University Press, 2008), pp. 240-244. It is important to note that many Roman Catholictheologians take Romans 12:1 literally, as reerring tothe sacramental oering o the Eucharist; however, itseems better to compare the sacrices mentioned inRomans 12:1 with the bloodless thanksgiving oer-ings o the Old Testament than with the burnt and sinoerings that atoned or sin.

6 Dunn, p. 548.7 Ibid.8 Ibid., p. 546. See also Rom. 15:16.9

Ibid., p. 544.10 W. D. Davies, The Gospel and the Land (Berkeley:University o Caliornia Press, 1974), p. 191.

11 R. A. Bryant, Between Text and Sermon: Romans12:1-8, Interpretation 58, no. 3 (2004): 287.

12 Ernst Ksemann, Commentary on Romans, trans.Georey W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980),p. 323.

13 John Ziesler, Pauls Letter to the Romans (London:SCM, 1989), p. 301.

14 O course, this is the Readers Digestversion o theextended discussion in 1 Corinthians 12-14.

15 Ksemann, p. 329.16 Ellen G. White, in Youths Instructor, Dec. 31, 1896.17 Ellen G. White, in Signs o the Times, Feb. 17, 1887.

ELIEzER GONzALEz LIVES ON THE

GOLD COAST IN AUSTRALIA WITH HIS

WIFE, ANA, AND THEIR TWO

CHILDREN. HE HOLDS AN M.A. IN

THEOLOG AND HAS COMPLETED AN

M.A. AND PH. D. IN EARL CHRISTIAN HISTOR. ELIEZER

HAS A PASSION FOR EVANGELISM AND FOR THE

GROWTH OF THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST.

in Rome that as inone body we have many

members,and the mem-bers do not all have the

same unction, so we, thoughmany, are one body in Christ,

and individually members oneo another (verses 4, 5).

Paul emphasizes in 1 Corinthians 12:13the uniying power o the Holy Spirit. It isthis Spirit that orms us into one body.This idea is linked to 1 Corinthians 3:16:Do you not know that youare Godstemple and that Gods Spirit dwells in

you? Here the Greek word or you is inthe plural; so Paul is reerring to the com-munity o believers itsel as the temple oGod. In Romans 12:1, when Paul appealsto believers to present their bodies to Godas a living sacrice, he is not reerring toChristians merely as individuals, butrather as members o the community o

believers, as members o the body oChrist, which is the temple o God.

We can here learn two importantthings. First, while worship is an experi-ence that can be entered into individually,it is never an isolated experience; it is

always based on the oundation that weare members o the community o believ-ers in Christ. Second, it also tells us thatwe primarily engage in worship becausewe are lled with the Holy Spirit, and notnecessarily the other way around.

In Romans 12, having established theimportance o being part o the one

body, Paul then mentions the impor-tance o the use o our dierent spiri-tual gits (verses 6-8).14 The appropriateuse o spiritual gits lies at the very

heart o worship. The reason theappropriate use o spiritual gits isimportant is that they are to be used inlove. For this reason the principle olove is at the heart o both Romans 12and 1 Corinthians 12-14. Just as at thecenter o Romans 12 is the exhortationto let love be genuine (verse 9), so tooan exhortation to pursue the purity o



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ip fo Bes BalancMOST PEOPLE TRAVEL FROM THE UNITED STATES TO CANADA by A ROAD OR

bridge. On June 15, 2012, aerialist Nik Wallenda, o the amed Flying Wallenda amily, made a dramatictightrope crossing over Niagara Falls in the dark o night; the rst o its kind.

Millions o people around the world marveled as the 33-year-old Wallenda walked 1,800 eet on atwo-inch cable in a televised event. All the way across the raging water he prayed to God in heavenand talked to his biological ather, who coached him rom a distance.*

Unlike others who have traversed Niagara, Wallenda was the rst to walk directly over the treach-erous waters and rocks o the actual alls. It took him slightly more than 25 minutes.

Arriving on the Canadian side o the alls amid the cheers o crowds, Wallenda hugged hisamily and called his grandmother to assure her he was all right. In a subsequent press coner-ence Wallenda was asked why he did the dangerous eat. What was his motivation?

Faith plays a huge role in what I do, he said. I believe that God has opened many doors orme in my lie, and this is one o them. Then he wryly added, Praise God here I am in one piece.Asked what he wanted to accomplish, he replied, I did it to inspire people around the worldthat the impossible is not so impossible i you set your mind to it and reach or your goals.

bEST PrinciplesWhen we think about our lives and personal trials in light o Wallendas crossing, the lessons

become obvious. From the perspective o a believer, we are reminded o what God said whenspeaking through Isaiah: When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when youpass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you (Isa. 43:2). The challenge is how we can part-ner with God in being successul in keeping balance in lie.

The ollowing lessons will help us as we go through the trials o lie.BBalancing skills:Wallenda, like all great aerialists, depends on his essential skill to maintain bal-

ance. Likewise, the oundational support o Christians is their ability to maintain the balance o a liecharacterized by consistent connection with God, buttressed by healthul habits and unselsh loveor others.

EEncouragement:Throughout the walk Wallenda repeated Bible principles and aith promisesthat kept his condence strong in God. During this dangerous walk he was heard saying, Thank You,Jesus, and Praise You, Father. Additionally, he remained in phone contact with his dad at a remotelocation, who could see and coach Niks advance rom multiple angles. The strength o a believer is theability to bring to mind Bible promises and stay in constant contact with God through prayer.

SSustaining habits: The aerialists success secrets are the courage to initiate action, to move rom dreamto action, ocusing on the end goal, and visualizing strengths versus potential weaknesses. Christians alsoneed to be hearers and doers o the Word, depend on a trustworthy God, watch where they are going, andremind themselves that their country is a heavenly one.

TTriumphant attitude:In 1978 Karl Wallenda, Niks great-grandather, died while crossing a tightropebetween two buildings in Puerto Rico. With that in mind, to prepare or the Niagara crossing Nik trium-phantly repeated the Puerto Rico walk with his mother. In honor o his amily and God, he purposed to

exhibit a victors persona. Christians, also, have a proud heritage o those who died in ull condence o theultimate triumph o good over evil.

What Net?Nik Wallenda is now preparing or a tightrope walk over Arizonas Grand Canyon, roughly three times

longer than the one over Niagara Falls. I just happen to have a permit, he said during an interview on ABC.What is your next move o aith or God? Can He depend on you to maintain your balance in lie?n

* Sources: Danny Hakim and Liz Leyden, Daredevil Takes a Successul Walk Across a Popular Void, New YorkTimes, June 15, 2012, nytimes.com; Rick Hampson, Daredevil Nik Wallenda Crosses Niagara Falls on Tightrope, USA Today, June 16, 2012, usatoday.com.

DELBERT W. BAER IS A GENERAL VICE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE.

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WHITEMEMORIAL

HOSPITAL

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Cover

by CMbELL COMPANy

the year was 1913, and the

bustling neighborhood oBoyle Heights in East LosAngeles was a harbinger othings to come.

People rom this booming regionwere oten poor immigrants who ound

hope in a modest storeront medicaldispensary that oered ree medicalcare to anyone in need.

Few o them probably understood thatthis little clinic was the beginning o a

bold idea by the Seventh-day AdventistChurch to train doctors in the healingwork o Christor that the clinic wasopened to provide hands-on training toearnest young doctors under the watch-ul eye o their proessors rom the newlyormed College o Medical Evangelists

(CME), or Loma Linda University, whichsimply didnt have enough patients toprovide broad training.

Even the early ounders probablycouldnt imagine that this one-roomclinic in East Los Angeles would some-day become White Memorial MedicalCenter (WMMC), a comprehensive med-ical campus and one o the highest-ranked hospitals in Caliornia. Andtoday, it likely exceeds their expecta-

tions as it celebrates its 100-year his-torya story dened by challenges andgrace, hard work and hope.

Ellen Whites Living LegacThe hospital proudly bears the name

o Ellen G. White as a living memorial to

the woman who advocated or theestablishment o a medical school andlaunched the building o hundreds oAdventist hospitals and clinics world-wide. These places, she believed, couldoer a unique kind o medical care thatattended to both physical and spiritualneedsand could introduce patients tonew ideas about healthul living.

Although she died beore she couldactually visit the hospital, Whites sonW. C. White was able to tell her that Mrs.

Lida Scott had oered to make a liberalgit to CME to establish a studentshome and hospital in Los Angeles.

The news so moved her that shetrembled with emotion as she replied: I am glad you told me this. I have beenin perplexity about Loma Linda, andthis gives me courage and joy. Ater alittle urther conversation, I knelt down

by her side and thanked the God oIsrael or His maniold blessings, and

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prayed or a continuance o His mercies.Then Mother oered a very sweetprayer o about a dozen sentences, inwhich she expressed gratitude, con-dence, love, and entire resignation.*

In keeping with her vision to help cre-ate a launching pad or medical evange-

lism, hundreds o doctors trained atWMMC have since that day served inAdventist hospitals and clinics around theworldand this mission to care or theunderserved still denes WMMC today.

Since our beginning, the White hasexisted to be o service, says WMMCpresident and chie executive ocerBeth Zachary, hersel a daughter o amissionary amilyher ather a teacherand her mother a nurse.

As a child, one o the most deeply held

values in our amily was helping others,Zachary says. It is one o the abidinggits rom my amily, and it is one reasonI eel so at home at the White.

A Magnet for PhsiciansWho Feel Called to Serve

Just as at the beginning, physicians stillcome here to develop their clinical skillsand reinorce the strong ties to LomaLinda University, the university sponsor

or WMMCs residency programs.But instead o training doctors in

specialty care, WMMC now oers vemedical residency programs: internalmedicine, OB/GYN, pediatrics, amilymedicine, and podiatric medicineashit in emphasis that refects their own

communitys needs or primary care.In addition to learning to be medical

practitioners, doctors come because theyhave a special interest in serving peoplewho are in need. WMMCs unique ocuson training doctors to care or under-served populations draws students whoshare this commitment, and when itstime or them to go into practice, 65 per-cent choose to work in areas where goodmedical care is scarce.

Juan Silva is one such example.

A gited student who consistentlymade the honor roll, Silva grew upabout our miles rom WMMC in ElSereno. During his high school years, hewatched his once diverse, dynamic com-munity undergo change.

Those with money moved out, andgangs moved in.

Many o the other top students in hisclass saw excelling academically as astepping stone to moving upwhich

oten meant moving outo El Sereno.But not Silva.I wanted to serve my community,

not abandon it. I studied medicine, andthen I looked or a medical residency toequip me with skills to care or my com-munity, he says. And that led me toWhite Memorial.

True to his intentions, Dr. Silvareturned home to El Sereno andounded the Mosaic Family Care MedicalGroup, where he practices with a class-mate rom WMMCs residency program.

A special brand o doctors is drawnto our programs, says Dr. LuisSamaniego, director o the amily medi-cine residency program. The amilyresidency program is regarded as the

best in Caliornia or attracting sociallyaware students and placing them in the

areas o greatest need.

Where Dreams beginWMMC sits just east o the glimmering

skyscrapers o downtown Los Angelesthe only private, not-or-prot hospitalserving the people o East Los Angeles.

Since the day it was ounded, it hasserved a neighborhood on the move.Boyle Heights is known as a place wheregenerations o immigrants rst putdown roots in the United States.

Decade by decade, people rom dier-ent ethnic backgrounds have made thisarea their home: rst Russians and Ger-mans, then later a large Jewish commu-nity ollowed by Koreans and Japanese.

Today about 80 percent o the com-munity residents are Latino, and manyhave come here rom Mexico to build a

better lie or themselves. People suchas Jesse Velasquez, who in 1968 crossedthe Mexican border into El Paso, Texas,with 1,200 pesos in his pocket and a big

dream in his heart.Back home, in the dusty town o

Durango, Mexico, his athers barber-shop barely took in enough to keep thelarge amily afoat, so Velasquez madethe 1,470-mile trek to Los Angeles in thehopes o nding work to earn moneyand help out.

To this day he believes it was Divineprovidence that led him to WMMC,where he ound his rst job as a janitor.

WHITE MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER: nte eart o te underserved communityo Boyle heigts, WC remains true toits mission o caring or te ealt o its

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WMMC has developed a residency pro-gram or registered nurses and seeks

out promising candidates rom theirarea in an eort to create jobs and edu-cate nurses who understand the cul-tural needs o their patients. Recentlygraduated nurses get on-the-job men-toring and quickly acquire a sense ocondence and ease working in a com-plex hospital setting. To date, more than100 people rom their community havecompleted the program.

Besides its role in patient care andeducation, White Memorial anchors the

community as its largest employer, andcontributes signicantly to the areas

economy through wages, purchasesmade in the local community, dona-

tions, and uncompensated care.

A New Campus WithFaith at Its Center

Motorists on Interstate 5 today cansee an impressive, eight-story structurerising above the roos o the modest

bungalows as they near Boyle Heights.The structure is WMMCs modern

353-bed, state-o-the art hospital,equipped with the latest technologyand built or patient comort, saety,

eciency, and sensitivity to their com-munitys unique cultural needs.

It stands as the centerpiece o a $250million building project that upgradedor replaced aging acilities in a projectcalled The New White Memorial, whichwas launched in 2001 and completed adecade laterlargely through govern-ment unding and private donations.

As a critical access saety net medicalcenter essential to the region, WMMCmust be built to withstand the regions

very real threat o major earthquakes.The rebuilding made possible an entireearthquake-resistant campus that meetsthe most current saety standards.

This is Gods hospital, Zacharysays. And throughout our history, Hehas always supplied our needs, oten inways that we could never imagine.

Weve always had an exceptional med-ical team and committed and talentedsta, she adds. And now we have a acil-

There he met people such as Drs. SheriAzer and Miguel Martinez, who took aninterest in him and ostered his curios-ity or medicine. Dr. Martinezs interestin Jesse evolved out o his own experi-ence working his way through medicalschool with so little money he some-times went hungry.

Velasquezs interest in medicine grewas he worked at WMMC. I would lookinto the operating room and watch inascination as the team perormed sur-geries with smooth, choreographed pre-cision, he says.

He decided to study nursinga deci-sion that turned into a 13-year journeythat included juggling jobs, studying,and earning money that he aithullysent back to his amily every month.Three days a week hed attend classes

until 1:00 p.m., rush to work by 2:00p.m., work until 11:00 p.m., and studyinto the early hours o the morning.

When he conded to Dr. Azer, arespected surgeon at WMMC, that hewas in a nursing program, the doctorsaid: Complete your degree, and Ill hire

you. We can work together.Today, Velasquez is a respected surgi-

cal nurse and member o the heart teamat WMMC, where hes served as a shitsupervisor o the ve-member evening

crew o nurses and technicians.Since Velasquez became a nurse,

FIRST STREETDISPENSARY:Wite emorialsrst patientsreceived reetreatment at tefirst treet clinic,wic began as aplace to train

doctors studying atte edglingCollege o edicalvangelists, nowLoma LindaUniversity. eclinic was equippedwit secondandmedicalinstruments tatwere delivered in aweelbarrow.



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outside o the industry. U.S. News andWorld Reportranks it high on their BestHospitals listnumber 12 among 140hospitals in Los Angeles, and number 20among 430 hospitals in Caliornia.

An UnshakaleFoundation and a broad

Vision for the FutureWith the campus makeover com-

pleted, WMMC sits on a oundationdesigned to withstand earthquakes. Butit has always had a philosophical oot-ing that gave it an equally strong base.

We are stewards o a work thatstarted long beore we joined, and willcontinue well ater we are gone, Zach-ary says. We are stewards o a sacredtrust that traces its roots back to theorward-thinking ideas o Ellen White

and to the origins o our church, whichwas grounded in service and in promot-ing health. And it gives us all a sense osatisaction to be here as we pass the100-year mark in its history.

For WMMC, the past proves to be thebedrock on which theyll build theirutureone characterized by ndingnew ways to live out their missionamong a changing population.

Being located in one o the mosthighly populated Latino communities,

or example, oers a greatopportunity. The Hispaniccommunity is one o the ast-est growing in the UnitedStates. We are in an ideallocation to conduct researchand pioneer new ways toenhance the health o thispopulation and embark onways to help them buildhealthier communities,Zachary says.

Adapting to changewhile staying true to theirounding mission and mak-ing aith a centerpiece otheir workis what WMMChas always been about. Andon this, their 100th anniver-sary, theyre taking time torefect deeply on their mis-sion, their past, their aith,and their uture. I would

hope that the early ounders would begratied i they could see us today,Zachary says.

To learn more about WMMC and its

upcoming centennial events, go to WhiteMemorial.com/centennial.n

*CME Board o Trustees, Minutes, June 15, 1915, p.4; W. C. White, The Los Angeles Hospital, Review andHerald, Sept. 28, 1916; Arthur L. White, Ellen G. White:The Later Elmshaven Years, vol. 6, p. 429.

CMBELL COMPANY, INC., ASSISTS BUSINESSES AND

OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WITH COMMUNICATION,

MARKETING, AND BRANDING.

ity that matches their level o expertise.WMMCs newest additiontheir

third medical oce building, which willhouse physician oces and a diabetescenteropens in 2013, a testimony totheir continued growth.

But WMMCs leaders will be quick tosay that new, modern buildings tell onlypart o their story. As one o AdventistHealths 19 West Coast hospitals, thisentire medical campus refects the sys-tems approach to care that mirrors

Christs example o healing. Regardlesso their ability to pay, patients experi-ence care that is grounded in the Ad-ventist health-care missiona beliethat God Himsel is the ultimate healer,that caregivers are agents o His desireto help people fourish, and that Godoers hope even in the ace o suering.

The new acilityalong with devoteddoctors and sta and a rigorous approachto constantly improving qualityhasearned WMMC recognition inside and

Boyl Hight:he eighborhoodWC erves

Almost 1 million people live in afve-mile radius o WMMC.

80 percent o the community is

Latino.

35 percent o households earnless than $25,000 annually.

31 percent have less than aninth-grade education, and only 5

percent o residents 25 and older

have a our-year degree.

21.1 percent o amilies areheaded by a single parent.

CARING STAFF: e ospital not only servesas te areas largest employer, but plays a

key role in educating doctors and nursesmany o wom coose to stay on and care ormembers o teir own community.

JESSE VELASQUEz: Velasquez, a nurseand a member o te eart team atWite emorial, came to America witte dream o nding work. his rst jobas a janitor at WC ignited is desireto become a nursea 13-year endeavor.

CHAPEL: ince its beginning, Wite emorial asbeen a ospital tat prays.

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Spirit of Prophecy

by ELLEN G. WHITE

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very one who shall be oundwith the wedding garment on

will have come out o greattribulation. The mightysurges o temptation will beat

upon all the ollowers o Christ; andunless they are riveted to the eternalRock, they will be borne away. Do notthink you can saely drit with the cur-rent; you must stem the tide, or you willsurely become a helpless prey to Satanspower. You are not sae in placing youreet on the ground o the enemy, butshould direct your path in the way cast

up or the ransomed o the Lord to walkin. Even in the path o holiness you will

be tried; your aith, your love, yourpatience, your constancy, will be tested.By diligent searching o the Scriptures,

by earnest prayer or divine help, pre-pare the soul to resist temptation. TheLord will hear the sincere prayer o thecontrite soul, and will lit up a standardor you against the enemy.

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Jesus let His home in heaven, andcame to this dark world to reach to thevery depths o human woe, that Hemight save those who are ready to perish.He laid aside His glory in the heavenlycourts above, clothed His divinity withhumanity, and or our sakes He became

poor, that we through His poverty mightbe rich. He came to the earth that was allseared and marred with sin; and beingound in ashion as a man, he humbledhimsel, and became obedient untodeath, even the death o the cross [Phil.2:8, KJV]. He submitted to insult andmockery, that He might leave us a perectexample. When we are inclined to mag-niy our trials, to think we are having ahard time, we should look away rom selto Jesus, who is the author and nisher

o our aith, who or the joy that was setbeore him endured the cross, despisingthe shame, and is set down at the righthand o the throne o God [Heb. 12:2,KJV]. All this He endured that He might

bring many sons and daughters to God,to present them beore the universe astrophies o His victory.

Will man take hold o this divinepower which has been placed within hisreach, and with determination and per-severance resist Satan, as Christ has

given example in His confict with theoe in the wilderness o temptation?God cannot save man against his willrom the power o Satans artices. Manmust work with his human power, aided

by the divine power o Christ, to resistand to conquer at any cost to himsel. Inshort, man must overcome as Christovercame. Christ was a perect over-comer; and we must be perect, wantingnothing, without spot or blemish.

In order to be overcomers, we must

heed the injunction o the apostle: Letthis mind be in you, which was also inChrist Jesus [Phil. 2:5, KJV]. He is thePattern that we, as His disciples, mustollow. We cannot cherish selshness inour hearts, and ollow the example oChrist, who died to make an atonementor us. We cannot extol our own merits,and ollow His example; or He madeHimsel o no reputation, and took

upon Himsel the orm o a servant. Wecannot harbor pride, and ollow Christ,since He humbled Himsel until therewas no lower place to which He coulddescend. Be astonished, O heavens, and

be amazed, O earth, that sinul manshould make such returns to his Lord in

ormality and pride, in eorts to lit upand gloriy himsel, when Christ cameand humbled Himsel in our behaleven to the death o the cross.

Christ came to teach us how to live. Hehas invited us to learn o Him to be meekand lowly o heart, that we may nd restunto our souls. We have no excuse ornot imitating His lie and working Hisworks. Those who proess His name, anddo not practice His precepts, are weighedin the balances o heaven, and ound

wanting. But those who refect His imagewill have a place in the mansions whichHe has gone to prepare.

The redemption that Christ achievedor man was at innite cost to Himsel.The victory we gain over our own evilhearts and over the temptations o Satanwill cost us strong eort, constantwatchulness, and persevering prayer;

but, gaining the victory through the all-powerul name o Jesus, we become heirso God and joint-heirs with Christ. This

could not be the case i Christ alone didall the overcoming. We must be victorson our own account. Then we shall not

only reap the reward o eternal lie, butshall increase our happiness on earth bythe consciousness o duty perormed,and by the greater respect and love thatwe shall win rom those about us.

He who is a child o God should hence-orth look upon himsel as a part o thecross o Christ, a link in the chain letdown to save the world, one with Christin His plan o mercy, going orth with

Him to seek and to save the lost. TheChristian is ever to realize that he is

bought with a price, to stand under theblood-stained banner o Prince Imman-uel, to ght the good ght o aith, and layhold on eternal lie. He is to reveal Christto the world. The sel-denial, the sel-sac-

rice, the sympathy, the love that weremaniested in the lie o Christ are toreappear in the lie o His ollowers. Inorder to do this, we must put on thewhole armor o God; or we wrestle notagainst fesh and blood, but against prin-cipalities, against powers, against the rul-ers o the darkness o this world, againstspiritual wickedness in high places [Eph.6:12, KJV]. I we do not overcome, we losethe crown; and i we lose the crown, welose everything. Eternal loss or eternal

gain will be ours. I we gain the crown, wegain all things; we become heirs o God,and joint-heirs with Christ.

Christ is coming in a little while. Hehas been our brother in suering; and iwe overcome through His grace, we shallsee Him as He is. We shall suer here buta ew days longer, and then enter into aneternity o happiness; or there is sweetrest in the kingdom o God. For thosewho ght the good ght o aith, there isreserved a crown o glory, a palm o vic-

tory, an inheritance incorruptible, unde-led, and that adeth not away. Let thedetermination o every soul be I must

run the race; I must overcome.n

THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED

IN bblE ECh, JANUAR 1, 1893.

ELLEN G. WHITE, ITS AUTHOR, WAS

ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE

SEVENTH-DA ADVENTIST CHURCH.

HER LIFE AND WORK TESTIFIED TO THE SPECIAL

GUIDANCE OF THE HOL SPIRIT.

For we wrestle not against esh andlood, ut against principalities,against powers, against the rulers ofthe darkness of this world, againstspiritual wickedness in high places.



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Youth are a priority among Seventh-day Adventists. Their spiritual growth, physical and

emotional health, educational opportunities, and personal relationships hold great impor-

tance. The church expends tremendous eort and resources to ensure that its children are pro-

vided sae and healthy environments in which to grow. But what about the youth with special

needs, such as those recovering rom childhood traumas and abuse that have resulted in such

conditions as reactive attachment disorder or attention-defcit hyperactivity disorder? Or those

who are exhibiting extreme negative behaviors resulting rom various other causes? Can par-

ents fnd answers and help rom within the church?

The administrators and sta o the ollowing three Adventist-run alternative-education

acilitiesMiracle Meadows School, Project Patch, and Advent Home and Learning Center

say yes.Editors.

MiracleMeadows SchoolBy Sandra Blackmer

Spending the night in a crackhouse with the police and FBItrailing him was not the Christ-

mas Eve Josh Voigt had planned.Voigt, barely 17, and a riend had sto-

len a caran event that evolved into a

weeklong crime spree. The FBI had beenchasing the young men up and downthe East Coast or days beore nallycatching up with them. Realizing thathe had hit rock bottom, Voigt sent up aprayer promising God, I You save merom this, I will turn back to You.

When oered the choice o possiblyserving 40 years to lie or his crimes orreturning to Miracle Meadowsa Sev-enth-day Adventist sel-supporting

middle and high school or at-risk boysand girls located in Salem, West Vir-giniaJosh knew the Lord hadanswered his prayer. So that day hedetermined to keep his promise to God.

More than a decade later Voigt, nowan Adventist pastor serving in the Ches-apeake Conerence, marks that experi-ence as the turning point in his liethe

beginning o his journey back to God.

I began reading the Bible rom Gene-sis to Revelation, Voigt says, and theschool supported and acilitated thechange process. They provided the tools Ineeded to turn my lie around and helpedto put me back on the right track.

School ProgramMiracle Meadows School, a boarding

institution situated on 200 acres in therolling Appalachian hills, was estab-

lished by Gayle and Bill Clark in 1988. Itsprogram is designed or children ages8-17 who are experiencing such behav-ioral problems as dishonesty, deance,school truancy, trouble with the law,poor social skills, destructive andaggressive tendencies, and alcohol anddrug abuse. The sta currently is under-going training in reactive attachmentdisorder (RAD), a condition in which

inants and young children dont estab-lish healthy bonds with parents or care-givers, typically as a result o neglect orabuse. This may permanently change thechilds growing brain, hurting the abil-ity to establish uture relationships.1

Most o the students here have expe-rienced neglect, abuse, trauma, and loss

beore the age o 3, Gayle Clark, whoholds a masters degree in nursing andis executive director o the school,

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Student lie director Jerrilyn Fabien,who has a masters degree in rehab coun-seling and has worked at Miracle Mead-ows or ve years, admits that not everystory ends well, but that the more youunderstand the childs background andthe reasons theyre acting the way theydo, the greater the success o the inter-

vention process.

Spiritual EmphasisMiracle Meadows is not only a Christian

institution but also distinctly Seventh-dayAdventistand spirituality, sta mem-

bers say, is their number-one priority.The sta here is committed to God and

to the Seventh-day Adventist Church,development director Bruce Atchisonnotes. We strive to help the kids grow in

their relationship with Jesus.Worship is held various times

throughout the day, Atchison explains.Many o the students also praise the Lordin music by singing in the school choir,which perorms throughout the U.S.

Is It Working?Susan and Steves2 13-year-old adopted

triplets are at Miracle Meadows because

their behaviors were out o control,oten resulting in police involvement,Susan explains. We knew that i these

behaviors continued, our children wouldend up in jail. The children also hadproblems bonding with their adoptiveparents. Ater about a year at the school,Susan sees signicant progress.

They now accept responsibility ortheir behaviors. They can identiy theirissues and know what they should do

explains. That aects them neurologi-cally. About 70 percent have beenadopted, and the abuse occurred priorto the adoptions.

AcademicsEnrollment at Miracle Meadows fuc-

tuates between 20 to 40 students. Ele-

mentary through secondary courses aretaught using a sel-paced mastery curric-ulum. The state o West Virginia recog-nizes Miracle Meadows as a parochialalternative school, meeting state require-ments or exemption K-12 schools.

Principal Patrick Johnson concedesthat challenges exist there that otherschools dont routinely deal with, andthat he had misgivings when he rstarrived. His initial assessment o the stu-dents, however, has altered signicantly.

I said to mysel, What we have is agroup o physically aggressive, rebel-lious students who dont want to listento authority. But as I looked into theirsituations, Ive come to understandthem better, and have grown closer tothem as individuals, Johnson notes. Inow see these kids as among the bright-est youll nd anywhere.

Five teachers, most o whom holdmasters degrees, instruct students ingrades 2 through 12.

Focus on behaviorAlthough scholastics play a vital role

at Miracle Meadows, a more intentionalocus is given to behavior change andsocial adjustment.

Many o our children have depres-sion and anxiety; theyve experienced alot o trauma rom both physical andemotional abuse, says social-emotionallearning coordinator Carmen Kleikamp.We encourage and educate them on the

eects o trauma, and why its hard orthem to trust and to connect with theparents they now have.

Kleikamp, a licensed clinical socialworker who holds a masters degree insocial work, interacts with the students in

both personal and group sessions. Coun-seling sessions that include the parentsocus on strengthening amily relation-ships and exploring causes and alterna-tives regarding their at-risk behaviors.

about the problems. Theyre taught howto work and do a good job. Theyve alsogrown spiritually, Susan says.

Susan believes that every child has aright to an education that meets theirparticular needs. These kids require aChrist-centered, structured school set-ting that can work with these issues and

not give up on them, she says.Conerence tuition subsidies and local

church worthy student unds generallyare not available to those who attendschools not ocially owned and operated

by the Adventist Church. Susans localconerence as well as ellow church mem-

bers, however, do provide some tuitionassistance, but not everyone receives suchsupport. Nancy and Bills experience withtheir church amily regarding their

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STAFF-STUDENT BONDS: ta striveto elp te students grow spiritually,academically, and socially.

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important, a relationship with Christ.The sta really worked with me on

sel-worth through God, Irving says.Its because o Him that Im worthsomething, and that core concepthelped me realize I need to rely on Hisstrength and not my own.

Each teen at the ranch is assigned toone o Patchs ve therapists, all owhom have masters degrees in therapy-related elds. In both one-on-one andgroup settings, counselors help themdeal with physical, emotional, and sexualabuse, divorce, attention-decit disorder

(ADD) and attention-decit hyperactivitydisorder (ADHD), terminal illness, loss oa amily member or riend, rape, andinnumerable other traumas.

During Parent Weekends, ranch ther-apists equip parents to be more eec-tive with their kids. They see thepositive changes in their child, partici-pate with their teens in trust- and com-munication-building activities, andattend workshops where they learn the

support rom the church.Bill and Nancys appreciation or Mira-

cle Meadows and the eorts theyre mak-ing or their son, however, is evident.

They dont give up on the kids here,Bill says. The heroic eorts that theseolk make are extraordinary.

Bonnie and Rons 14-year-old daughter,Trisha, has been at Miracle Meadows or

about a year, and is on track to go homesoon. When Trisha was born to Bonnieand Ron, they didnt envision their daugh-ters downward spiral that turned intorebellion in her early teen years.

Her Adventist upbringing, the loveo her parents, the love o her amily, all

16-year-old son John, whom they adoptedat age 6, was very dierent.

When Johns negative behaviorsreached the point where his parents eltthere was no option but to enroll him inalternative education, they asked theirlocal church and conerence or help

but no unds were provided.The couple says they did receive emo-

tional support rom ellow church mem-bers, but sometimes, Bill notes, keepingus in their prayers isnt enough.

These broken kids appear orgot-ten, Nancy adds. They dont eel val-ued or loved, and they struggle withtheir spirituality. They need help and

PROJECTPACHBy Becky St. Clair

irving hated authority. As a seventhgrader, he was deant, depressed,unocused, and suicidal. He didnt care

about school or learning, nearly ailingall his classes. Summer classes allowedhim to continue into eighth grade.

My lie was awul, he recalls. Ihated my parents or even bringing me

into the world, and I told them on a reg-ular basis how I elt.

Although it happened when he was 7years old, Irving blamed himsel or hisparents separation, and he struggledwith accepting criticism, even when itwas constructive. I elt the world wasagainst me and that my lie wasntworth living, he says.

Then his good riend and classmate died.That sent me over the edge, Irving

says. I completely gave up.When Irving ailed the eighth grade,

his mom searched or options and dis-covered Project Patch, a residential

behavioral treatment acility in themountains o Idaho.

Tackling the Tough StuffProject Patch is a Christian nonprot

organization ocused on helping hurt-ing teens and building stronger amilies.It was ounded in 1984 when Tom San-ord, an Adventist pastor, became over-whelmed by the needs o hurting teens

and elt called to care specically orthem. Tom and his wie, Bonnie, starteda oster-care placement program, whichdeveloped into Project Patch YouthRanch or youth ages 12-17. Its locatedon 170 orested acres about an hournorth o Boise, Idaho. Since then, ProjectPatch has helped nearly 1,000 teens likeIrving nd direction, respect or them-selves and others, healthy ways to han-dle lies challenges, and, most

authorityeverything was called intoquestion in her mind, Ron says.

Although they tried other avenues o help,

Bill and Nancy reached the point at whichthey elt no eective help was available. Theythen learned about Miracle Meadows.

We praise the Lord that theres aacility like this, connected with thechurch, so our child can continue tolearn about the values and biblicalteachings we believe in. . . . Its helpingus to regain our child.

To learn more about Miracle Meadows

School, go to www.miraclemeadows.org, or

call 304-782-3630.n

1 Mayo Clinic, Reactive Attachment Disorder: De-nition, www.mayoclinic.com/health/reactive-attachment-disorder/DS00988. Accessed November 29, 2012.

2 Names o parents and students are pseudonyms.

SANDRA BACMER IS FEATURES EDITOR OF

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