Personal Files -- 1984

30 January, 1984

Dear "First Samuel" and Eileen:

Belated Holiday Greeting including Lunar New Year "Seibai"
to you ! My thoughts and prayers have been with you and your
special works at Princeton. It was really great to see you
last summer and that at Princeton Campus. I do hope I will
get to see you again either in Seoul or Princeton, or both.

I am writing this letter from Seoul Christian Academy House
where we are having two two-weeks Bethel Bible Seminars. This
is my 9th year of doing simultaneous translation for the semi-
nars. Some 280 Korean clergymen including catholic fathers
and sisters are participating in these seminars --quite an
ecumenical gatherings (usually from 16 denominations) . Someone
should conduct a systematic study on how this Bethel Bible
Movement in Korea has been affecting "ecumenical spirit" of
Korean Church.

Both my boys and I had wonderful Christmas and New Year,
and we are expecting another big celebration of "Koo Jung."

It seems more people want to celebrate Lunar New Year than
Solar New Year. . .and I wonder whether or not this is a simple
"revisionistic" or "restorative" movement among common people
or a sign of emerging nationalistic movement! Or is it simply
a matter of difficulty in changing old tradition so deeply rooted
in the minds of people! In a practical sense, this gives me
rather difficult tasks to entertain my big families with multi-
ple holiday celebrations. But then. . .my boys deserve more
lumbers of holiday, knowing their difficult and deprived past.

I will do my best, and I guess this is another dimension of
mission.

One of my boys passed enterance exams with pretty high score--
and has been accepted as an English major freshman of Chunnam
Univ. He received a full scholarship for the first semester.
Another boy is waiting for the result of his lisence examination
to become a dental technician. He will be completing his junior
college course next month. . .There are so many wonderful stories
related to the lives of each boy here at Kwangju Boys Town, which
I would love to share with my friends, but then we don't have
time to write and read. . .how sad!

I continue to work as the director of Kwangju Boys Town, and

tssociate professor of SJU (I may apply for full professorship
his spring) , and plus working as an auxiliary chaplain of Kwang
Ju Air Base. As the president of Korean Association of Schools
of Social Works I keep rather busy organizational activities
both at national and international scale.

I am seriously considering myself writing a textbook on
"Korean Church and Social Work" if I can find a source of.
financial assistance for conducting imperical research this
year. There are about 22 schools teaching Social Work major,
and a half of these schools are directly or/and . indirectly
related to Christian Church. The demand for this kind of
teaching material is very great.

Lately I am doing a research under the topic of "Chei Myon,

Ki Boon, and Noon Chi"... in the line of psychoanalytic under-
standing of these unique Korean concepts,, and how it affects,
in our communication (decoding and encoding system) . This is
a very interesting topic but not an easy task because I find
as soon as I try to analyze the nature of these concepts, it
seems to lotfse all their mysterious dimens ion* of Korean identity
( or personality) .

Enough for a report from "Second Samuel" to the "Firsts."

Dr. Simeon Kang is doing O.K. John Underwood and Dick Nieusma
and their families are all doing well at "Chullado, Shi Kol."

Most of my energy this particular period of university. year
is being forced to pursuade dissident-students to reconcile
with the university/ and return to the class as government -policy
allow* them to do. As the chairman of our department I have
direct responsibility to communicate with students who were
in priosn but recently released. I really hate this kind. of
work, but then I cannnot jump out of the main stream of histo-
rical events in Korea. I do hope you will continue to pray
that justice shall flow in this nation.

Enclosed pictures remind me of the evening we had such
delightful time at the Wolfs. They are really wonderful
people whom I just adore. When you see them next, please
convey my i.ove to them. Also to Jack Cooper, one of my favorite
souls on earth!

Take good care of each other. Bless you . . . "Annyonghee Keseyo! "

TTnto us a
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Into
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3600 Western Avenue //228-C
Connersvil le , Indiana 47331
December ^1984

Dear Family and Friends

One of the nicest times of the year is upon us!
Thanksgiving Day was spent alone this year--but it
. ,was stiH beautiful because I spent much of the dav

concentrating on Blessings instead of JUST food and parades. I had
plenty of food while millions around the world were starving. “A time
for thoughts of Blessings and Thanks-giving . 8

i . i?84had its UPS and downs for me as far as health was concerned
but Blood-preasure and Hypertension are all under control. Still have

”HappyWam I"! ritiS ^ ^ t0°’ iS resPondin8 to medicine. So,

v QThe “°So mfan*ngf“l exPerience of this year was an extra blessing
because in September I was one of a party of just over 100 folks who§
visited Korea and Taiwan for two weeks! Can you believe it7’? I
hardly can!!! •

ru °i!r • Prasbyterian Church in America, together with the Presbyterian
Church. is Korea celebrated the year 1984 as the Centennial Year of the
beginnings of Mission Work in Korea. Chuck's Church in Canfield
Ohio, sent him and his wife. Peg, on the trip as a SURPRISE GIFT ! Mv
younger daughter Betty who lives here in Connersvil le , joined me to
make 4 Moffetts who attended the 100th Birthday Celebration to honor
among. many others. Grandpa Moffett (Dr. Samuel A. Moffett) as one of*
tue.plnn?er Missionaries to that country. Korea had been our "first
choice for Missionary Service in 1938. The Lord had other plans for

us and we went to India, instead. But that first love has always
remained . J

. Meeting and making many wonderful friends from all over U.S.-

bus ecross that land of breath-taking beauty; visiting the
Hospital in Taegu and seeing the growth since our visit in ' 70 •

thenprefiden^e f°^d director s room with pictures on the wall of
"Th»!h1v M ie Seminary and hearing Betty burst out with

Jnfj.h l ndpa Moffett --as the person who founded the Seminary in
190i with two students in his study and to be told it is now the

SemlnaTy in 9he world; spending a night in a Korean home and
8,I^V1CeS the family in a small church only a few miles

f om the 38th parallel; spending some wonderful times visiting and
shopping with Uncle Howie and Aunt Delle as they joined us in Seoul

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for the ceremonies; having a "wild" taxi ride; attending the General
Assembly of Korea; having dinner with Moderator Harriet Nelson and
husband as the guests of the Pastor-Emeritus of Yung Nak Church--the
largest Presbyterian Church in the world (Not in measurements but
memberships) ; attending service there our first day in Korea where
they hold six services each Sunday morning to accomodate all who wait
their turn to get in; having my children thrilled over meeting so many
former schoolmates of Charles whom X had met and known over the years!

Each time I have partaken of Communion with 5000 women at Purdue,

I have experienced a time of re-dedication and commitment. But to be
one of nearly 18,000 people attending the Birthday Celebration held in
Jamsil Gymnasium (You 11 see it on TV for the *88 Olympics) partaking
of Communion served most ceremoniously by black-suited, white-gloved
Korean elders to that "Cloud of Witnesses"- -having to fight back the
tears as I felt the absence of Charles for what would have been one of
the Crowning experiences of his life and then to have the service
conclude with ALL--bands , 1500-member combined Youth Choir from all
the churches in Seoul, representatives from over 22 countries, plus
all the thousands of Koreans--singing the Hallelujah Chorus!!! That
gave . us each, an uplifting sense of Joy, Thankfulness, but what a
feeling of deep humility. We rejoiced for the past, were thankful for
the present, and challenged for the future.

I'll Never be the same person I was before Sept. 20, 1984.

My family of 22 are all well, busy and happy. We've managed to
get together in various and different "groups" during the year. Last
Christmas they pulled a wonderful surprise on me. I had thought that
Alice and family would not be able to join us, but as we gathered at
our reserved place for our dinner, Alice, David, David Craig and Todd
came around the corner! Squeal, hugs, etc. Then we all went out to
Betty^s for the FULL gathering around the tree and the utter joy of
watching a dozen "younguns" open presents. We took family pictures
and then it was my pleasure as Head of our Clan, to officially welcome
a new to-be member of the family. April Brown, Paul's then,
to-be-fiance and who will be bride and groom on January 26, 1985. My
oldest grandson, Paul, and April to be starting the next generation of
Moffetts a month before I will become three-quarters of a century old.

I'm looking forward to getting and keeping in touch with all of
you as we exchange greetings. Hope you all have a Blessed, Merry and
Happy Holiday as together we celebrate HIS birthday.

Love to each and all

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by Samuel Hugh Moffett t

Korea’s ClracoaiquemMe Christians

September marks the 100th
anniversary of the founding of
the evangelical church In Korea.
Dr. Samuel Hugh Moffett writes
about those early days of
missions In Korea and the people
whom God used— Including Dr.
Moffett’s own father.— ED.

On September 20, 1884,
Horace Allen, who had
served as a medical "missionary In
China, landed seasick and weary
at the port of Inchon, Korea. He
pressed on to Seoul, where he
was appointed physician to the
American legation. That
appointment secured his safety
since an ancient edict against
missionaries was still binding.

Then on the night of December
4 a plot against the nation's
leaders exploded into violence!
Scores of the King's counselors
were murdered and the Queen’s
nephew lay dying in a pool of
blood, seven sword cuts on his
head and body. Over the
objections of 14 palace
physicians, who were about to
pour black pitch into the patient's
wounds, Dr. Alien was summoned
to the palace. For three months
he fought to save the prince's life.
Failure would have meant the end
of his work in Korea. But the
prince recovered and a grateful
king appointed Dr. Allen as
physician to the royal court and
allowed him to open a hospital in
Seoul, sponsored by the
government "in cooperation with
a benevolent society in America."
Indirect and cautious though the
phrasing of the decree was, it was
the first official approval by the
Korean government of missionary
work in Korea, and Dr. Allen
became the country's first resident
Protestant missionary.

Earlier mission attempts in
Korea had been made by Roman
Catholics, and there were some
underground Christians in Korea
at the time Dr. Allen began his
work. One of the first Protestant
attempts at evangelism was that
of the Reverend Robert J.

Thomas, a missionary from China,
who spent two-and -one-ha If
months in 1865 on Korea's west
coast studying Korean and
distributing Bibles. When he
returned to Korea the nej

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his ship was set afire by fear-
stricken Koreans. Thomas
managed to get to shore, and he
is said to have offered a Bible to •'
the first man who met him. It was
refused. Then Mr. Thomas knelt
to pray, and the man who refused
the Bible beheaded him. His

• slayer could not escape the
conviction that he had killed a
good man and took the Bible
home with him.

Many years later the nephew of

• the man who killed Robert
Thomas graduated from Union
Christian College in P'yongyang
and assisted with the revision of
the Korean Bible.

The first Protestant clergymen
to land in Korea were Horace G.
Underwood and Henry G.
Appenzeller, who arrived in 1885.
They were pioneers In evangelism
and education.

, My father, the Reverend Samuel
A. Moffett, landed in Korea in
January, 1890. It was still
forbidden to evangelize publicly.

In 1893 he decided to move to
PVfingyang, which is the capital
of North Korea today. When he
arrived, he.was stoned in the
streets, but he stayed. The
following year he baptized seven
men, and they became the
foundation of a work which was to
become for a time the largest
Presbyterian mission station In
the world.

A man who stoned my father as
he entered the city was converted
and became one of the first seven
graduates of the seminary. At a
caucus these seven ministers of
the Korean church expressed their
agreement that "a real church has
more than ministers; a real
church has missionaries." They
looked at the man who stonea my
father, and someone said, "You
stoned the first missionary you
ever saw. You have to be our first
missionary." They sent him to an
island off the southern coast of
Kotea, and he was stoned by the
people who met him. He survived .

to become a hero of the Korean
church.

In one of the first mission
meetings my father attended, a
decision was made that national \.
church leaders be independent ,)
and self-reliant from the /

beginning. Every Christian was toi
teach the faith to others, not as a
professional evangelist, but while J
carrying on his normal /

occupation. Every group was to \
build its own church and support )
its own pastor. /

The Korean church grew most >
rapidly in precisely those areas )
where this plan was practiced J
most faithfully. Today there are '
said to be more Presbyterians in#
Korea than in the United States..

In 1905 Korea lost its
Independence to the Japanese,
and when it regained
Independence in 1945, only half
of the proud little peninsula was
set free. Yet it was in these years
of disaster and testing that Korea
produced the greatest of its
treasures — unconquerable
Christians.

In his 40 years In Korea my
father founded 200 schools. When
the Japanese conquerors came,
they said, "No more Bible-
teachlng in the schools." My
father led a movement that
challenged them on that. He said, ■
"We'd rather close the schools,"
and the Japanese backed down.

But they kept harassing into the
1930s and tried to force Shinto
practices onto the church. Ir> the
schools where my father had
influence, he refused to let
students go to the Shinto shrines.
Because of this, he was thrown
out of the country in 1936. Later
hundreds of pastors and
missionaries were arrested and
some were tortured.

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Christians were tested dining
the Communist Invasions in the
1950s. A refugee family that
returned to their home village
after one of the Communist
invasions found that the church
and their home had been
destroyed. But five sacks of rice
which had been buried before
they left remained. Though it was
all they had, this Christian family
set aside three of these precious
bags of rice as a contribution
toward rebuilding the church
They gave them as a thank
offering for their deliverance.

What is the secret of the vitality
of the Korean church? Some say
its vitality is in its devotion to the
Word of God. One of the church's
early decisions was to use an
easily understood phonetic
alphabet to translate the Bible.

The decision to use this alphabet
enabled Korean Christians to
study the Bible, and it also
resulted in Korea having a high
rate of literacy compared with
other parts of Asia. Once when a
committee came to my father to
ask the secret of the church's
growth, he said, "Gentlemen, we
have been holding before these
people the Word of God, and the
Holy Spirit has done the rest "

Some think the vitality of the
Korean church is their fervency in*-
prayer. Each day before dawn, at
4:30 in the summer and at 5:30 in
the winter, groups of Christians
make their way to the churches to
• pray, ... • *

Others say the secret is the
church's spirit of self-support and
self-reliance. "We do not want to
be rice Christians," Korean
Christians have said. Stewardship
has become an ingrained part or
their Christian faith.

But the great strength of the
Korean church can be understood
only in the steadfast faith of
individual Christians— Christians
such as Major Noh.

Yong-Soo Noh was a major in
the Korean Salvation Army. When
the Communists swept through
Kaesong. in 1950, they took, him..
prisoner and beat him. "Givr up
your faith in Christ," they said,

"and we will set you free."

With a Bible in one hand and a
hymnbook in the other. Major
Noh answered. "You can shooi
me, but alive. or dead, I arh still
Jesus Christ's man."

Korea's Christians are Jesu
Christ's men aqd women. And
insofar as they are his, they'&rr
unconquerable.

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Samuel Hugh Moffett was a missionary lo
Korea from 1955 lo 1981 Since 1981 he ha-
been Henry W Luce professor of ecumemcs
and mission at Princeton Theological
Seminary. Princeton, New Jersey. He ar.d his
.wife. Eileen, live in Princelon This arlit.1
© 1984 Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association, includes excerpts from "Tl
Christians of Korea. ' by Samuel Hugh
Moffett, ©1962 Friendship Press, Inc , I
•York, and from "A Survey of World
Missions, by John Caldwell Thiessen.-H . 195;
Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship. InlorV. , .n,
Press. Downers Grove. Illinois.

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PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

The Program for
Asian-American
Theology and Ministry

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A Message from the President

Dear Friends in Christ:

Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812 for the purpose of
training people for the ministry of the Church. That historic mission continues in
the midst of changing times and situations. Now we face the new challenge
and opportunity of equipping the leadership of the rapidly growing Asian-Amer-
ican congregations. Our Program of Asian-American Theology and Ministry is
designed to meet this pressing need. Not only will it prepare new leadership for
these churches through the basic degree programs, but also it will provide
creative opportunities for the continuing education of present pastors and lay
leaders. The Seminary is very excited about, and deeply committed to, this
new avenue of its ministry.

This brochure will introduce you to the Program of Asian-American Theol-
ogy and Ministry. You will be encouraged, I believe, by the scope of the vision
which informs it. Because of the genuineness of the need, we are bold to invite
your investment in it. Our goal is to endow both the program and a professor-
ship in Asian-American theology. Resources devoted to this new ministry of the
Seminary will reap rich dividends among the dynamic and growing Asian-Amer-
ican churches.

Faithfully yours,

Thomas W. Gillespie, President

Dr. Sang Hyun Lee

Assistant Professor of Theology

and Director of the Program

for Asian-American Theology and Ministry

The Purpose

The Program for Asian-American Theology and
Ministry has been established at Princeton
Theological Seminary in order to promote and
facilitate Princeton’s role in the theological
education of the leaders of the rapidly growing
Asian immigrant churches in this country. For many
years, Princeton has helped train outstanding
missionaries and Asian church leaders. Now some
of the fruit of the remarkable growth of the church
in Asia are in this country as immigrants, urgently
calling for church leaders trained to be sensitive to
their particular contexts.

Many Asian immigrants bring with them a
fervent Christian faith and their own rich ethnic
heritages, but they also share some common
challenges and problems. They need to develop a
theological foundation for their life as sojourners in
a foreign land. They face the urgent need for
bilingual and bicultural pastors and Christian
educators who can effectively minister to second
and third generation Asian-Americans. They need
to have nurtured the strengths and skills which will
enable them to retain their ethnic heritages and at
the same time to reach out beyond their ethnic
churches and communities to all peoples and all
churches in their newly adopted country.

In order to make a systematic effort in meeting
the above needs, the Board of Trustees of
Princeton Theological Seminary formally
established the Program for Asian-American
Theology and Ministry in the fall of 1983. In
December of that same year, the Seminary
received a grant from The Henry Luce Foundation
for the initial phase of the Program, and, in January
of 1984, President Thomas W Gillespie appointed
a director.

As an integral part of the Seminary, the Asian-
American Program will focus especially upon three
areas- (1) the recruitment, training, and placement
of bilingual and bicultural Asian-American church
leaders; (2) the continuing education of all Asian
immigrant clergy and laity for an even greater
effective ministry both in their particular ethnic
contexts and in their relationship with the church at
large; and (3) the development of theological,
educational and bibliographic resources for Asian-
American ministries.

Above and beyond its service to the Asian
imrnigrant church, the Asian-American Programs
aim is to help all students at the Seminary prepare
for their future ministry in an ethnically diverse
world. The Program is deeply committed to work
for an ever-growing mutual understanding and
solidarity among persons of all ethnic and racial
backgrounds here at the Seminary and in the
church at large. All programs and projects will be
carried out in such a manner that they will
ultimately serve the entire Church of Jesus Christ.

The Program

Asian-American Dimensions in the M.Div. and
M.A. in Christian Education Programs

Academic Courses:

Future leaders of Asian-American
churches must be sensitive to the
particular needs and concerns of their
ethnic contexts. Princeton's regular
curriculum already includes courses
which are especially pertinent to Asian-
American churches — -for example:
Asian-American Theology and Ministry
Contemporary Asian Christianity
Israel in the Wilderness
Encounter of Christian Faith with Other
Faiths

Field Education:

Currently, more than forty Asian-American
students are serving in local
congregations during week-ends as part
of their field education requirement. These
congregations include Korean, Chinese,
Taiwanese, Japanese, Filipino, Laotian,
Cambodian and other Asian immigrant
churches in New Jersey, and in the New
York City, Philadelphia and Washington,

D C. areas.

For the first time, a “Ministry Case
Practicum” for students serving Asian
immigrant churches is offered this
academic year (1984-85) supervised
jointly by the Office of Field Education and
this Program. Participating students meet
regularly with a professor to reflect upon
various theological issues emerging out of
their work with Asian immigrant
congregations.

Recruitment and Placement:

This program has already begun to
identify and meet with potential
candidates for ministry among Asian-
American college students. Princeton
Theological Seminary admits qualified
students without regard to race, color,
national or ethnic origin, disability or sex
The placement of Asian-American
graduates of our M.Div. and M.A.
programs is an important and complex
task. Asian immigrant churches tend to

have their own lines of communication,
and this Program will assist in establishing
communication between our graduates
- and Asian immigrant churches.

I Scholarship Aid'

The Asian-American Program will assist in
establishing permanent scholarship
endowments for Asian-American
students.

Continuing Education
In cooperation with the Center of Continuing
Education, various events are held here on
campus as well as at off-campus locations.
Some of these off-campus leadership training
events will be planned and carried out in
collaboration with regional associations of
pastors and lay leaders. The following are
examples of the topics covered by these
seminars:

The Asian-American Experience
Church Administraton
Presbyterian Polity
The Reformed Theology
Christian Education in Asian-American
Context

Pastoral Care: Theory and Practice
Princeton's Doctor of Ministry Program is
another avenue through which Asian-American
pastors may pursue further studies.

Students' Service to Local Congregations

In addition to their regular services in local
churches during week-ends, teams of Asian-
American students will be available for
leadership in second-generation youth
meetings and retreats as well as in teacher
training sessions. A team of Korean-American
students, for example, has successfully
conducted youth rallies in Detroit, Buffalo and
Pittsburgh.

Research and Publications

Highly qualified Christian Asian-American
scholars and pastors in various disciplines
need to be brought together for intensive
seminars to reflect upon some of the critical
issues facing Asian immigrant churches, and
the results of their work need to be published.
Some of the areas in which such studies are
urgently needed are: biblical and theological
reflections on immigrant experiences, the
management of culture conflicts, and the

Professor Geddes Hanson leading a seminar for
Asian-American pastors

contextualization of pastoral care and Christian
education

Currently, the office of this Program is
assisting the Program Agency of the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the
Consulting Committee on Korean-American
Ministry in the publication of a "resourcebook"
for Korean-American ministry.

Programs for Mutual Understanding and
Dialogue

Virtually every pastor and lay leader in the
Presbyterian Church and other denominations
comes into some kind of contact with Asian
immigrant Christians. Many Asian immigrant
congregations meet in the church buildings of
Anglo-American congregations. There is an
emerging need for Asian immigrant church
leaders and their host pastors to come
together for conversation and dialogue. The
newly established Program at Princeton will
plan conferences where church leaders of all
ethnic and racial backgrounds can gather and
share with each other their particular concerns.

Relationships with Churches and Seminaries
in Asia

Future leaders of Asian-American churches
must have an appreciation of their Asian roots.
Their contacts with students from Asia are
important. Further, the possibility of an
internship year or semester in Asia is being
explored. The office of this Program will
sponsor events on campus which will foster an
increasing awareness of the important
contributions of Asian Christians and churches.

Bibliographic Resources on Asian-American
and Asian Materials

A special collection of the growing literature in
English on Asian-American and Asian
Christianity is being made by this office. It will
be an indispensable resource not only for
students at Princeton but for the entire church.

The office of this Program also plans to
establish a comprehensive collection of various
materials for Asian-American ministry (e.g.
theological reflections, curricular resources for
local churches, program ideas for youth, etc.).
Pastors and Christian educators may write or
phone the office and obtain copies of these
resources.

Professor Leong Seow

The Funding

A grant from The Henry Luce Foundation has
made it possible for Princeton Seminary to launch
the initial phase of this newly established program
Financial assistance has also been received from
TeleVideo Systems, Inc. and several Asian
immigrant churches and individuals. In order to
provide the Program with a firm financial
grounding, a fund-raising campaign will be
conducted during the next few years. These
donated funds will establish a permanent
endowment for scholarships, programming,
administrative staffing, and a faculty chair in Asian-
American Theology and Ministry.

We earnestly appeal to all concerned
individuals, churches and other groups to
participate in this fund-raising effort. Contributions
from local congregations will be especially ear-
marked for scholarship aid for future Asian-
American church leaders as well as for
participants in continuing education. The
categories of Charter Membership in the Asian-
American Fund are as follows:

Up to $500
$ 500 or more

$ 1 ,500 or more
$ 5,000 or more
$10,000 or more

Supporting Member
Supporting Charter Member
Sustaining Charter Member
Special Charter Member
Life Charter Member

(A gift ol $50,000 will qualify for the Life Charter Membership of Ihe Asian-
American Fund as well as establish a permanent "Full Scholarship Endowment" )

Contributions may be made in the form of a
single payment or in a series of payments over two
or three years. Upon the receipt of the complete
payment, a certificate of Charter Membership in
the Asian-American Fund will be issued. All
contributing individuals or organizations will
receive annual reports about the activities of the
Program and the recipients of scholarship aid.

Inquiries for further information about fund-
raising may be directed to Dr. Frederick W.

Cassell, Vice President for Seminary Relations, or
to Dr Sang H. Lee, Director of the Program for
Asian-American Theology and Ministry, Princeton
Theological Seminary, CN 821 , Princeton, New
Jersey 08542.

Inquiries concerning the activities of the
Program should be directed to the Director of the
Program.

Photographs at left: (top) President Gillespie
greets a student and a visiting scholar from
Asia; (middle left) A student working with Asian-
American youth in a local church; (middle right)
Professor James N. Lapsley, Academic Dean,
leads a Continuing Education seminar.

Princeton Theological Seminary admits qualified students without regard to race, color, and national or ethnic origin, disability or sex.

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OVERSEAS
MINISTRIES
STUDY
ICENTER

For further information and

registration forms, write.-

James M. Phillips, Associate Director

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The Filaments
of a World Mission

SAMUEL HUGH MOFFETT

An article in the New York Times this fall announced that three
Princeton astrophysicists have found evidence that galaxies “are
not randomly clustered through the universe, as science long
be heved, but are arranged in a pattern of filaments, like gigantic spiders strung
out on eosmtc webs. One of them added that if the research "turns out right"
and this filamentary structure is not an optical illusion but real, it will “tell us
with certainty” that the galaxies could not have been distributed by chance
but by a "coherent” event.

am not going to claim that last year’s publication of the World Christian
Encyclopedia is a scientific break-through on quite the same shattering
astrophysical scale. That would be pretentious. It does not even pretend to be
the first to discern quantifiable trends and connections in global Christianity
But it does occur to me that the fourteen-year labor of identifying, measuring
and describing what appear to be some basic filamentary structures of
Christian expansion and decline in the world of religions in the 20th century
has as much of a note of challenge to further research in the field of missiology
as the new galactic studies present to cosmologists.

Will the Encyclopedia’ s broad, brush-stroke portrait of the Christian world
m today’s context prove to be accurate enough to be called real? That is up to
missiologists to affirm or disprove before the next edition comes out. And if it
is real, how does that change our world perspectives? This much at least is
sure: as a ready reference book for research and teaching it has no equal.

I am not going to attempt a review of the volume. That will be done by
others. Rather, as requested, I will simply respond in a personal way to such a
question as “How does the vast amount of new material gathered together
here influence me in my teaching of missions and ecumenics?”

Dr. Samuel I H. Moffett was a Presbyterian missionary in Korea for many years
Currently he .s Henry Wmters Luce Professor of Ecumenics and Mission at
Princeton Theological Seminary.

Missiology: An International Review, Vol. XII, No. 1. January, 1984

70 Samuel Hugh Moffett

A New Type of Ecumenicity

In the first place , it has already taken some of the guesswork and mythology
out of the easy, the often misleading generalizations into which I am tempted
when speaking about the world church. It has added new standards of
definition and accuracy to my thinking about the world mission of the church.
For example, most mainline denominational ecumenicity of the 1960s was
serenely unaware, even into the 1970s, that it represented a diminishing sector
of world- wide Protestantism, and an even smaller share of the cutting edge of
Protestant evangelistic and missionary outreach. We were proud that 200
churches were members of the World Council of Churches, and that the
Council had added an Orthodox dimension to its ecumenical vision and an
evangelistic dimension to its missionary structure at New Delhi in 1961 . The
number of member churches would soon grow to 300, making the WCC still
the only genuinely ecumenical ecclesiastical organization in Christendom
outside the communion of Rome, at least in the root meaning of
“ecumenical.”

But I now find from the Encyclopedia that 300 churches do not a “world
church council” make — not when there are in fact some 20,000
denominations in the world, four times as many as we had estimated
only twenty years ago. Five new church denominations are formed every
week, on the average, and almost all of them are non-conciliar (pp. 3, 17). The
encouraging growth of conciliar connectionalism (Protestant, Catholic,
Orthodox and evangelical) however is not overlooked. It is as carefully
documented as the sobering facts of Christian division. Ecumenists can find
cheer in the array of charts on “confessional conciliarism,” “world
conciliarism,” “continental conciliarism,” “national conciliarism” and even
“non-conciliarism” in Global Table 28 (p. 794). At the beginning of this
century there were no nationwide transconfessional councils. Today there is a
"vast network of some 550” such national councils spread across the world.

But other statistics call for sober inquiry. Why are 144 million church
members still unrelated to any world or international council of Christians,
and why, since 1970, has this number of the unrelated been growing at a
considerably faster rate than the membership of churches related either to the
World Council of Churches or the Synod of Bishops (Roman), particularly in
the so-called third world. The growth figures for the ten years between 1970
and 1980 are: 27% in churches unrelated to international bodies, 19% in
Roman Catholic churches, and 9% in churches related to the WCC (at least
according to my unchecked calculations).

Which reminds me to urge care and caution in use of the Encyclopedia. It is
dangerous when consulted for a quick statistical fix as one dashes off to class
or rushes into print as I am recklessly doing here. This huge volume’s
statistics, definitions and percentages are not at all self-explanatory. They
require study and constant reference to the book’s own dictionary of
definitions (Part 9) and its codebook for statistical tables (Part 6). Popular
definitions differ widely and this book’s usage of key words may not always

71 The Filaments of a World Mission

coincide with one's own, but it at least has the advantage of as cleat an
explanation as is briefly possible. As for the statistics, some of us without
scientific background may need a refresher course in mathematics Glaring
long Tel0^ntenrpre‘all0n are easy t0 make- The columns are deceptively

words r 7 ' * W°rd f°r " and USC 3 mler' The footnotes and running

ords of instruction are interminable but indispensable. The Encyclopedia is

the mfsteteTl think'l h “ TT’ U iS Hke 3 C°mpUter in «W» also: most of
tne mistakes I think I have found in it are not its own, but mistakes I have

programmed into it by careless consultation.

The Evangelical Surge

holt0 ret,r V° ,heufilamems of mission. The conciliar is not the only thread
holding the churches of the world together and giving a coherent pattern to
heir missions. Much has been made by the media in recent years ofthe rising
power of what „ calls the evangelical sector (and more popularly the ''born

agmn ^heEncT I ,Amencan P™testantism. How true is the picture? Here
again the Encyclopedia is a pace-setter in seeking to provide the data for
identifying and analyzing the dimensions of a major ecclesiastical and
missionary trend. In doing so, one feature tha, is sure to remain comrovlrsial
Chris.”'0" ''eVan8e,iCa'S ' '"t0 a -sum* * segment of gS

The Encyclopedia stands in a long line of Protestant statistical surveys
stretching back to ISIS, not to mention William Carey'sin 1792. But Ibelieve

■vll r'V. firS‘ "me SUCh a handbook has dared to distinguish
angehcah as a quantifiable world group. It gives the evangelical
membership in the churches as 157 million (in 1980), and if all who claim to be
,h“ are ,ncluded' the global total is recorded as 200 million. I assume
, fhgareS mCh'ude ,he f mdli°n membership, and 100 million global

total °f those who are designated elsewhere in the survey as
entecostal-charismatics.” both inside and outside the Pentecostal
denominations (pp. 826, 838). niecostai

If these figures are reasonably correct (which is all the Encyclopedia ever

ofTe* world5 w!d 'StlC,S)' "7 nhey W°Uld be 3 h'8hly s'gn|hcant confirmation
ihl hT f I T °f the evan8elical surge. It would mean that more
than half the affiliated membership of the world's Protestant churches are
an®ekca s f ^ uullion out of 262 million, or 60%. (See Global Table 4 p 8)

It will be interesting to see how well these statistics stand up to further
inquiry The two problems needing attention are definition of the term
evangelical and the reliability of the sources for numerical measurement
The Encychped,0 s own definition is four-fold, emphasizing personal
gious experience. Scriptural authority, evangelism and theological
conservatism. But not all who call themselves evangelicals consider all four
characteristics as necessarily definitive, and even when they do. they do not
always describe them in the same way. As for sources for the numerical
statistics, few of the world's larger church bodies recognize and record a

72 Samuel Hugh Moffett

separate “evangelical” category in their membership. National and global
quantifications of such a classification, therefore, must depend heavily on
public opinion polls, and these in turn hang upon the respondents’
understanding of disputed terms. Nevertheless, I venture the prediction that
if and when such a classification wins wide acceptance in the churches, as it
has for example in the Anglical communion, the Encyclopedia will probably
prove to be nearer right than wrong.

Unreached Peoples

One of the most seriously studied areas of statistical missiological inquiry
these days outside official conciliar circles is the task of identifying and
evangelizing those peoples and areas still unreached by the missionary
expansion of the Christian faith. Frontier missions, it is sometimes called.
Here, too, the Encyclopedia's columns and charts and clarifying definitions of
“evangelized, unevangelized and evangelizing populations” may stir up
healthy debate and challenge to further research. Even more important, it
could lead to renewed concern about unpenetrated parameters of the
Christian mission’s basic evangelistic task. The debate will probably center
around the fact that the figures strongly suggest that “the dimensions of the
unfinished task of world evangelization are in fact much smaller than
contemporary Protestant and Catholic missionary organizations realize.”
The world, says the Encyclopedia boldly, was already 68% evangelized in
1980 and will be 72% evangelized by 1985 (p. 19). Even if so, it would mean
that between a third and a quarter of the world’s four billion four hundred
million people will still be unevangelized.

Any debate stirred up on this issue must take seriously the book’s precise
definitions of terms, as found in its dictionary (esp. pp. 19 and 826).
“Unevangelized” loosely used can mean anything from “never heard the
name of Jesus to “non-Christian.” The editors use it in the sense of "not
having had the gospel spread or offered” and provide columns of figures
continent by continent, and even country by country, as well as two colored
maps (pp. 798, 810-81 1, 868) to mark the location of the one billion three
hundred and eighty million people not yet reached in 1980.

The Growth of Third-World Churches

But for me, the most valuable and best defined segment of the data
accumulated in this volume relates to the rise of what we usually call, for want
of a better term, the third-world churches. Of all the varied filaments of
mission which are forming the network pattern of the global church in the next
hundred years, this will probably prove to be the most important. It was the
Encyclopedia’s startling observations on the growth of the non-white
churches that first alerted many of us to the fact that a point of fundamental
change of perspective has already been passed. The first chart in the book
faces white Christians with the happy realization that sometime between 1981
and 1982 they lost their majority status in Christendom. For the first time in

73 The Filaments of a World Mission

2°° years the number of non-white Christians has again exceeded whites in

has, W ChHarOUnd thr WOdd' 0urs is n0 longer a “white man's religion ’ • This
basic trend is given further recognition in the survey by the desimation of a

whoienew category of Christian churches. To the familiar trfoo^ Catholic

"Non' White"? riPr0,eStan! C„hurChes' the Encyclopedia adds what it terms
h Indigenous churches. This is an awkward and uneven coupling

,h h Kd eccl®siastlcal h>story which separates two important segments of
he churches in both the first and third worlds, but I must try to adjust my

cultures In ahSe °l "S 'rapllca,ions in mission 1° cultures and across
wo Id w, He a mf.mbersh'P the "CW category already outnumbers the
world wide Anglican communion, 82 million to 50 million (Global Table 9.

No separate classification exists of third-world churches or Christians as
such, not an index of third-world countries. The precise definition used by the
Encyclopedia for "third-world" is by political orientation: "non-aligned "
But a world population chart highlights the sharp decline of the west’s
percentage of world population from 30% in 1900 to 14% in 1980 and the
continuing population dominance of the third world despite its major loss to a
suddenly emerging second (communist) world in this century. Third-world

srirhas°52%fpan6)he CentUry Wi’h 70% °f ‘he W°rld'S population in l900' a"d

CnrvfrhHr he'P in idemifying 'hird-world missiological realities is the

mission ri0h rearran®eme"' °f «* traditional geographical context of
mission. It abandons the old “five-continent" formula, and the newer
six-continent world view of missions for the United Nation’s more
contemporary “eight-continent" division of the world’s land area and
peoples. By separating North America. Europe and the USSR from the other

nroev COntmenl| (Africa E. Asia. S. Asia. Latin America and Oceania), it

provides missiologists with a reasonably approximate framework for separate
statistical treatment of the third world and its major divisions. But it must be
born in mind that non-white indigenous" as a separate ecclesiastical
category is not equivalent to "third world." The difference is perhaps best
defined by two statistics in Table 9 (p. 14) on Global Membership in
Organized Chnstiamty. Non-White Indigenous church membership is given
as 82 million in 1980. whereas church membership in "less developed
countries (a popular definition of the third world) is given as almost 600
million, or 45% of global church membership. The latter figure includes both
types of third world churches, non-white indigenous and those with
continuing western connections.

I find an extraordinary wealth of extremely useful material in the country by
country descriptions and tables on the subject of the third world churches all
of it conveniently arranged for ready reference. We all have our areas of
greatest interest. Mine is Asia. Th e Encyclopedia enables me to stand off for a
moment from my preoccupation with one part of the globe to see Asia and its
churches in context and proportion.

74 Samuel Hugh Moffett

This produces some comparisons that are food for thought. It shows a
major shift since 1900 of the center of Christian expansion, first from Europe
to the Americas, then from the Americas to Africa. But most recently, that is
from 1970 to 1980, the annual growth rate of Christianity in East Asia has been
higher even than Africa, and South Asia has been very little behind Africa.
Then there follows in a declining order of continental Christian growth rate
Latin America, Oceania, the USSR, North America and lowest of all, Europe
(Global Table 23, p. 782f.). It remains to be seen whether a ten-year period
will be enough to indicate the trend of the future. For now, Asia is still the least
Christian continent of all, both in the percentage of Christians in the
population, and (if we exclude Oceania) in the total number of Christians.

But to put it all in final perspective, 1 must remind myself that these arrays
of figures and statistics point only to the outward pattern, not to the inner truth
of the Christian church in mission. That pattern is not really the faintly
ominous, gigantic spider web of the astrophysicists’ metaphor with which I
began. To the Christian, would not a more appropriate metaphor be the globe
of a great electric light. The Encyclopedia only traces the changing patterns of
the filaments. That is its purpose and it does it very well. But the Light is Jesus
Christ.

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Tensions between church and parachurch— historic precedents, today’s challenges

There is nothing new about
tensions between church and
parachurch agencies. The tug-of-
war between institutional loyalties
and functional freedom of action is
as old as Paul’s encounter with
Peter in Antioch— and as contem-
porary as a 20th-century Protestant
schism.

It can best be understood, there-
fore, in a context of history. For
“the real essence of the real
Church,” as Hans Kung has writ-
ten, “is expressed in historical
form."

A history of tensions

In the first century, a question
came up concerning the relationship
between recognized ecclesiastical
authority (the Twelve) and a highly
personalized, but amazingly effec-
tive, mission (Paul’s), which
brought forth an eloquent defense
of his ministry to the Gentiles.

Paul recognized the imperatives
of ( 1 ) a church connection, (2) a
commissioning from the congre-
gation in Antioch, and later,

(3) the approval of the leaders in
Jerusalem.

But when Paul’s own authority
was questioned, he based the
validity of his call and mission not
on the mandate of any church in
Antioch, or even on the sanction of
the apostles in Jerusalem, but on
the revelation of God in Jesus
Christ. Only in the assurance of a
commissioning beyond the power of
any human organization to give,
could he be so bold as to “oppose

[Peter] to his face.”

In seventh-century England the
tension between independent and
church-centered outreach brought
Celtic and Roman missions into
head-on collision. The former were
far more successful in converting
Scotland and England, but the
latter triumphed in organizing the
church. It was the Irish monks,
singularly unfettered by diocesan
controls, who largely Christianized
the British Isles. But it was a bishop
from Rome, Wilfred of York, who
outmaneuvered them at Whitby in
663-664.

A different, but not altogether
dissimilar, conflict of functional
urgencies and organizational
connections in the ninth cen-
tury kept Cyril and Methodius
dangling in mid-orbit between
Constantinople and Rome, as those
two powerful churches fought for
control of the brothers’ success-
ful mission to the Slavs. The
missionaries, however, were more
interested in keeping the project
indigenously Slavic than in the issue
of with what church it should have
its connection.

After a thousand years of trial
and error, Rome at last faced the
fact that church structures and
mission structures might need
differing institutional forms and a
flexible relationship. Beginning with
the Franciscans and Dominicans in
the 13th century, and the Jesuits in
the 16th, the Pope began to grant
autonomy from lesser ecclesiastical
authority than his own to a whole

multitude of missionary orders
(voluntary societies for mission).

Freed from jealous ecclesiastical
controls, these missionary societies
exploded in outreach across the
world, far beyond the borders of
Christendom. The pattern of the
Roman Catholic orders had its own
problems At one unforgettable
point in church history the Pope
dissolved the entire Jesuit Society.
But it has served admirably as a
missionary model to this day

Had Martin Luther not reacted
against the missionary orders—
especially the Dominicans and
Franciscans, as in his preface
to Alber’s “The Fools’ Mirror . . . ’’ —
the first 250 years of Protestantism
might not have been so astonish-
ingly sterile in missionary outreach.
Without a structure for missionary
ministry comparable to the orders.
Protestantism turned in upon itself,
as a church in mission among the
churched, and left the world to the
untiring friars and the Jesuits.

It is significant that when the
Lutheran monarch Frederick IV of
Denmark looked about for his first
foreign missionaries in 1706. he
went not to the organized church
but to the independent Pietists,
and official Lutheranism thundered
against the folly of a mission to
savages. The voluntary mission
society, supported by no single
church body, remained the domi-
nant German pattern up into the
1950's

Anglicans, less anti-Catholic
and more pragmatic than Luther,

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proved more flexible than the
continental Lutheran and Reformed
churches. They eventually allowed
two different missionary societies
within their one church— the older
Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel, for the more estab-
lishment-minded, and a new Church
Missionary Society for the more
independent "evangelicals."

Max Warren’s article "Why
Missionary Societies and Not
Missionary Churches?" is a
beautifully even-tempered defense
of such plurality of mission
structures within the unity of the
Church:

"To imagine the religious
societies of the eighteenth
century as being in some way ‘in
opposition’ to the Church, or
even to envisage them in appo-
sition, as being over against the
Church, is to do despite to the
Holy Spirit of God and to his
working in history. It is a wrong
interpretation of the facts . No.
official leadership does not by
itself constitute the Church. Nor
is the central administration
of a denomination the Church"
(italics his).

Americans were even more inno-
vative Instead of one church with
two missionary societies, they
formed one missionary society for
two still-separated churches— the
Congregationalist and Presby-
terian— and for any others which
might wish to cooperate. The
famous American Board of Com-
missioners for Foreign Missions,
organized in 1810 after the pattern
of the London Missionary Society,
became the missionary agency for
both denominations. On both sides
of the Atlantic, this type of
parachurch structure of the vol-
untary mission societies turned out
to be the dominant form of 19th-
century Protestant overseas
missions.

But as early as 1837. American
Presbyterians began to have second
thoughts about independence in
mission. A year later, the Pres-
byterian General Assembly tore
itself in half over the issue of
whether Presbyterian missions
could properly be entrusted to an

independent agency not under the
direct control of the church. Its
liberal wing remained loyal to
the parachurch society and was
drummed out of the church. The
conservative wing, remaining in the
assembly, separated itself from the
highly successful voluntary society
for missions, and formed an equally
successful denominational Board of
Foreign Missions. By the end of the
century, mainline church agencies,
denominationally controlled, became
the ascendant organizational form
of missions.

The 20th century brought an
ironic switch. In the 1930's— just
as the denominationally controlled
mainline mission boards were
proving their ability to plant
flourishing younger churches
around the world— an abrupt
reversal of the trend took place,
particularly in North America.

Earlier, it had been the liberals
who championed the parachurch
approach to mission About a cen-
tury later, around the year 1937, it
was the conservatives who broke
away from the denominations in
ever-increasing numbers to form
independent societies and to swell
the ranks of what by then were
being called “faith missions."

A related development was the
emergence of independent denomi-
nations with a strong focus on
missions.

By 1960 the “center of gravity of
Protestant mission-sending
agencies” had shifted sharply away
from the mainline agencies towards
parachurch missions and indepen-
dent denominations. Today the
imbalance is overwhelming. It has
been estimated that as much as 90%
of the full-time North American
missionary force operates outside of
National Council of Churches
denominations (though not all of
these are with parachurch groups).

It is no wonder that tensions have
developed.

Definitions without agreement

We turn now — somewhat
reluctantly— from history to the
harder task of groping for
definitions.

Parallels from history must be

treated with caution. It is easy
to jump too quickly from resem-
blances of form and function to
assumptions of identity of being. In
the New Testament, for example,
the apostles in Jerusalem were not a
National Council of Churches. Nor
was St. Paul working for Campus
Crusade.

The heart of our problem centers
around the definition of the church,
as Warren suggests in the paragraph
quoted above. If no agreement can
be reached on so basic a definition
as that, discussion of relationships
between church and parachurch will
always end in frustration. Unfor-
tunately, “church" is one of the
most imprecise words in the Chris-
tian lexicon. And to add the prefix
"para” to it, only makes it fuzzier.

What is a church? This is where
the ambiguities begin. Witness the
confusion — both legal and ecclesi-
astical— between a church, a con-
fessional body, a denomination, a
congregation, a sect and a cult. And
what is a parachurch — a voluntary
society, a service agency, an
electronic television program, a

‘C

V-^hurch’ is one
of the most
imprecise words in
the Christian
lexicon

seminary chapel, a denominational
mission agency, a faith mission,
a task force? The list could go on
and on.

Not every true believer is content
with John Calvin’s classic definition
of the “marks" of the church:
faithful preaching and hearing of
the Gospel and the administration
of the sacraments as instituted by
Christ. However much one may be
biased in Calvin’s favor, as is the
present writer, it is difficult to stop

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TOGETHER April-June 1984

here. Once one starts to list the
marks of the true church, to stop
with two or to find agreement on
their priority and indispensability, is
next to impossible. Calvin himself
often added a third mark, disci-
pline, which refers not only to the
church’s authority, but to its moral,
ethical and social dimensions.

The Salvation Army, which was
originally parachurch, is now as
much or more truly a church, albeit
without the traditional sacraments,
as some churches with sacraments
but without Christian service to the
poor, or others which celebrate the
sacraments but have lost their
moral and theological discipline.

Calvin at least was right in his
willingness to distinguish between
essentials and non-essentials, and in
his emphatic warnings against both
schismatic temper, on the one
hand— which is the besetting sin of
the parachurch— and ecclesiastical
arrogance, on the other hand —
which is an endemic fault in the
churches. The latter he rejected as
“monarchy among ministers,” citing
Paul’s claim to equality with the
Twelve.

Does this suggest that ultimately
there is no difference between
church and parachurch? Not quite,
but it does raise questions. Is the
church a worshiping fellowship of
believers? So are many parachurch
organizations. Is the parachurch
a service agency? So are some
churches. Is the church where the
Word of God is faithfully preached?
Independent missions do that. So
do seminaries.

Perhaps the church of Jesus
Christ is too big to be boxed in by
Catholic orders or Protestant
reformers. There are always new
dimensions which we may have
overlooked— the exercise of the
Holy Spirit’s gifts, the fulfillment
of God’s missionary purpose, the
manifestation of his Kingdom, the
fellowship of the saints, the school
of discipleship, the place of prayer.
Like his person and his work, the
Body of Christ defies adequate
description.

Long before Calvin's time,

Ignatius of Antioch, bishop of the
church which less than 60 years

before had sent Paul on his first
missionary journey, left us a
memorable one-line definition of
the church He was a strong
defender of the power of bishops,
but in a letter written on his way to.
martyrdom in Rome about 107
A D . he returned to the basics.
“Where Jesus Christ is, there is the
Church," he said simply.

There is an echo of the same
sentiment in Irenaeus a generation
later. “Where the Church is, there
is the Spirit of God; and where the
Spirit of God is, there is the Church
and every grace." It was an age
closer to the apostles than ours,
and perhaps truer to the apostolic
concept of the church. Who will
deny to parachurch agencies the
presence and power of Christ and
his Spirit?

Then what is the real difference
between church and parachurch?

Some say that the difference lies
in the fact that the church is the
whole Body of Christ, whereas
parachurch agencies are never more
than incomplete parts. But what
Church today claims to be the
whole Body? There is only one
Head— Christ. All the other parts
are precisely that— parts— the
parachurches no less parts of the
one Body than the churches, and
each member of the Body no less
interdependent than all the other
members. This puts church/para-
church tensions in a different, less
pejorative perspective. It is
unfortunately true that there is as
much organizational tension
between the churches themselves as
between church and parachurch.
and one is no more reprehensible
than the other.

Others say that the difference is
a matter of recognition and accep-
tance by some higher authority. If
so, by what authority? The word
“church” derives from the Greek
kuriakon and simply means “that
which belongs to the Lord.” This
could apply equally well to church
or parachurch. Paul’s favorite word
for the church, ekklesia , from
which the English language derives
the word "ecclesiastic,” means “a
community” or “a called gathering,”
and Paul never tires of pointing out

that the calling is from God, not
from any human source.

Were not the Protestant
denominations themselves non-
churches— or worse yet, anti-
churches—to some Catholics before

T ~

A he calling is
from God, not
from any human
source

Vatican II9 But what Protestant
denomination would accept the
label “parachurch" as if its
churchness were of an inferior
order? To strict anabaptists,
is not any church organization
beyond the worshiping congre-
gation a parachurch? But what
presbytery considers itself to
be a lower governing body than a
congregation?

On a larger scale, is not the
World Council of Churches a
parachurch agency? Yet in a strange
reversal of roles, membership in
such a parachurch organization is
considered by some to be the
authentication of a church.

Pathways to cooperation

Despite these ambiguities of
definition, however, there does
remain a feeling of difference
between church and parachurch.

But if history leaves us with
tensions, and if our definitions—
even with the guidance of Scrip-
ture— lead us to no Christian
consensus, how do Christians deal
with this difference?

One helpful approach is Ralph
Winter’s “warp-and-woof” analogy,
exposed in a series of pathfinding
articles on “The Two Structures of
Mission." In them he borrows terms
from the social sciences and des-
cribes a church as a modality . and
a parachurch agency as a sodality.

He uses modality to define the

TOGETHER April-June 1984

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THE KOKEA! HERALD. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 11. 1984

Korea's Heritage

Nation 9s only Christian museum

By Jon Carter Coveil

Page 5

This year of 1984 will see more emph-
asis than usual on the role of Christianity
in Korea’s heritage. Normally its influ-
ence in the fields of social change and
economic areas comes to mind instantly,
rather than its influence on art. This year
with the visit of the Pope in May to cele-
brate the 200th anniversary of Catholicism
and the canonization of a number of mar-
tyrs from Christianity’s early days in
Korea, the public will be strongly re-
minded of the role of Catholicism in Ko-
rean history.

The Protestants, too, have a centennial,
to mark the arrival of Dr. Horace Allen.
The founding of Severance hospital and
the establishment of what later became
Ewha Woman's University and Yonsei
University are also nearing their hun-
dredth birthday.

Anyone who hasn’t read “First Encoun-
ters: Korea 1880-1910" will find its old-
fashioned illustrations a delight. The
R A S. published this historic photo--
graphic record. Dr. Samuel Moffett left
Korea a year or so ago, but he has shared
his slides and there are also prints from
hand-tinted lantern slides.

The architecture of most churches or
cathedrals here is so Western that one
might not think Christianity had an influ-
ence on Korean art and architecture, but it
did — silently. But as far as specific influ-
ence on such media as painting, a visit to
the Korean Christian Museum at Soong-
jon University will fill in this gap.

The educational institution itself has its
main campus in Taejon, but, fortunately
for Seoulites, the museum is located on
the Seoul branch campus grounds.
Actually this is the lifetime collection of
Rev. Kim Yang-son, who first began to
display his artifacts in 1948. The Korean

This is the most important painting preserved by the Korean Christian Museum
located on Soongjon University campus. The food on the table is interesting as the
artist is portraying a royal banquet, held for the signing of the Korean-Japan Com-
merce Treaty of 1883. The one foreigner at the upper left appears to be the German
friend of King Kojong, Paul Georg von Mollendorff.

War interrupted, but after peace and
some prosperity began to return. Rev
Kim donated his poses^ions to his alma
mater, Soongjon University, for perma-
nent display.

Some of the items in this Korean Christ-
ian Museum are unique] such as a second
century B .C. iron mirror. Bibles owned by
early Protestant missionaries are on dis-
play with some paintings that are about a
century old. The most famous one shows a
royal banquet which celebrated the con-

clusion of the Korean-Japan Commerce
Treaty, a document that was signed in
1883.

The table looks strange at first, but it is
rendered in the traditional Yi Dynasty
manner, inherited from Ching-dynasty
China, a method termed “reverse pers-
pective. ” The table slants outward toward
the viewer, rather than growing smaller in
the distance.

According to this convention, distant
figures are as clear as those in the fore-

ground, for the obscuration of aerial pers-
pective, such as developed by the Van
Eycks in the fifteenth century, was not
applied.

In the Christian Museum can be found
the evidences for the early missionary zeal
of translating the Bible, or printing tracts
to take into the countryside, preaching
streetcorner sermons and building grade
schools, high schools and eventually col-
leges. Perhaps it is in the costumes and the
means of transportation that Westerniza-
tion in the guise of Christianity made the
most rapid and decisive changes, and old
photos here at the museum testify to this

This museum has over 6,000 articles
which illustrate the early efforts of the
missionaries, particularly the Protestants,
and the interesting decades when Korea
ceased to be "The Hermit Kingdom." The
museum displays occupy the second and
third floors of tne building, with a library
and research rooms on the ground floor
As more and more attention is focused on
the role of Christianity with the coming of
spring in 1984, this unique museum is
worth a visit.

In the foothills near the Second Han
Bridge stands the Church of the Martyrs,
which has a small museum with memen-
toes of the time when the Taewongun was
the actual ruler of Korea (about 1864 to
1873) and considered Catholicism “an evil
religion."

Seoul became a decapitation ground. It
is said that over 8,000 Korean Catholics
were beheaded, beaten to death by offi-
cials, or else strangled. This came to be
known as “Chop Heads Mountain." Plans
are underway for a large museum here, as
well as other buildings, as part of the
celebration of the two hundredth
anniversary.

CONSULTATION ON CHRISTIANITY IN NORTH KOREA
OMSC, Ventnor, NJ Feb. 5-7, 1984

Proposed schedule: (Tentative : as of Jan. 11, 1984)

February 5. 1984 (Sunday)

Afternoon: Arrival, registration, & check-in at Sisters of Charity,

115 S. Derby Ave . at Boardwalk, Ventnor, NJ
6-7 pm Dinner at Sisters of Charity. Then walk to OMSC Sunny-

side Large Meeting Room for consultation sessions.

7:30-9:30 pm (Sess.#1:) "Biblical and Theological Bases for Dealing

with Christianity in North Korea. "Dr. Samuel Moffett.

February 6 (Monday )

7-8 am
8:30-9 am

9-10:30 am

10:30-10:45 am
10:45-12 noon

Dr. Everett Hunt, OMS

Breakfast

Bible Study and Prayer

(Sess.#2;) "North Korea since 1945: Observations from
a Visit ." Speaker: Mr. David Easter, AFSC

Coffee break'3111 ^ Gormley,. SSND .

UDe^annP,olAW.S te??ReN?"Dte\bKe°rrteaAnndersonI LCA
Lunch. (followed by 1 hour free time) --

(Sess.#4:) "Reports on Recent Visits to North Korea."

Speaker: Prof. Dong Soo Kim Chair: Mr. S. Michael Hahm,UMC
Coffee break

(Sess.#5 0 "Exploring Christian Contacts in North Korea.
(A panel.) Dr. Wi Jo Kang, moderator.

Panel :Rev. James Reapsome (_Ev. Miss . Qu. ); Fr. John Corcoran, MM;Ms. Roberta
6—7 pm T>' ~ ~

12:3Q-1 :30 pm
2:30-3:45 pm

3:45-4:15 pm
4:15-5:30 pm

7:40-9:30 pm

Dinner Rev. Glen Davis (Pres . Ch. Can. ) ’*£evenbach(AFSC) .

"Town Meeting" on North Korea. Reactions to what has
been said thus far. (Bring slides, publications, and
information on study centers about North Korea, to shar
with the group.) (Sess.#6)

February 7 (Tuesday)

7-8 am
8:30-9 am

9-10:30 am

Panel : Ms . Rhea
10:30-10:45 am
10:45-11 :45 am

Breakfast

Bible Study and Prayer : Dr-.- Everett Hunt, OMS

(Sess.#7:) "Possibilities and Problems in Relating to
Christianity in North Korea. "Chair : Dr. Paul Crane, MD
Whitehead (Ang.Ch. Can. ); Sr. Mary Mo tte , FMM; Sr . Esther Kelly, MM
Coffee break

(Sess.#8:) "Wher^ do we go from here?"

11:45-12 noon Closing Worship Rev. Paul Gregory, UOBWM
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch, and departure

No. 6 March

1984

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TAIWAN JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY

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The Taiwan Journal of Theology is thankful to the author and to the
Editor of The Princeton Seminary Bulletin for permission to translate and
publish Dr. Moffett’s article, “Mission in an East Asian Context. The
Historical Context.” The article appeared originally in PS B 3 (1982), 242-
251, and was the first lecture in the 1981-82 Student Lectureship on
Missions. Dr. Moffett is Professor of Mission and Ecomenics at Princeton
Theological Seminary. He was formerly a missionary in China (1947-50),
thence in Korea where he was Associate President of the Presbyterian
Theological School in Seoul. The TJT hopes that by translating and
publishing this article, it will make Dr. Moffett’s lecture more widely
available in Asia. The article was translated bv John Yieh

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The Reverend Dr. Samuel H. Moffett is the son of pioneer missionary
parents who served in Korea where he was born in 1916. Dr. Moffett received
his B.A. degree from Wheaton College. In 1942 he was awarded the Bachelor
fo Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. His Ph.D. degree, is
from Yale University.

Dr. Moffett is currently the Henry Winters Luce Professor of Ecumenics
and Mission, Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey. In addition to
serving as a missionary to China ( 19477-195 1 ) and to Korea ( 1955-1981 ), he
is the author of numerous books and articles for both the layman and
academicians.

Dr . Moffett brings a unique perspective to the Samuel Robertson Cheek, Jr.
Memorial Lectures. Having been a missionary in China at the time of the
Communist takeover, he was arrested and expelled from that country. We
cherish his reflections on both Korea and China, as we try to put current events
in an appropriate context.

" LESSONS FROM KOREA AND CHINA"

Sunday morning, March 1 1 , at 8:45 and 1 1 :00 o’clock
Dr. Moffett will speak at the morning worship on:
"Clay Pots: a Lesson from Korea"

Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock
Dr. Moffett will speak on:
"Failure or Success: a Lesson from China"

Monday morning, Dr. Moffett will visit with
faculty and student at Centre College

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MARCH 1 1-12, 1984

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

of

DANVILLE, KENTUCKY

invites you to the

Samuel Robertson Cheek, Jr. Memorial Lectures
Guest Lecturer: The Reverend Dr. Samuel H. Moffett

Bp. Lesslie Newbigin Warfield Lect. Princeton, 3/20/84

I am sure thatjishop Newbigin has resigned himself to beinq
introduced these days more times than he would like to count,
but I must add my own unnecessary word. "ft;

I first met him in a fittingly ecumenical setting, a meeting
of the four theological colleges at Cambridge. We were in Wesley
House, satisfy ingly Methodist. The Anglican crowd from Ridley
and Westcott welcomed him as a bishop from the Church of South
India. I came with the group from Westminster College. To us,
remembering his fundamental origins, he was Presbyterian. And
to complete the ecumenical picture, he was about to be elected
Moderator of the United Reformed Church in England.

We know him best, perhaps through his books. The Reunion of
the Church, 1948, was a landmark theological justification of'
the Basis of Union of the Ch. of S. India. ^For many of us, our
favorite is hi household of God. 1953**^ffs chaTTenge to
Xn. unity for mission, not just for the sake of union, revived
my missionary spirit from the bruising it had received
7^- .More recently his The Open Secret. 1978, on the theology
of mission, was virtually required reading for the faculty here.
And just yesterday the whole cover of Presbyterian Outlook was
given over to his newest book, The Other Side of 1984. which
like the remaining four Warfield Lectures we will await with
great anticipation.

His subject for today is "Profile of a Culture: The Inward

and Outward Forms of Modernity".

Dr. Newbigin...

A\h

“But you shall receive power when the Ho/y
Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my
witnesses Acts 18

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Princeton V
Northeastern
Regional Conference

of the

Presbyterian

Charismatic Communion

Conference Speakers

Samuel H. Moffett is Professor of
Ecumenics and Mission, Princeton
Theological Seminary, following
thirty years as a missionary in China
and Korea, where he was bom to
missionary parents. Both he and his
wife taught at the Presbyterian
Theological Seminary, Seoul. He
was Dean of the Graduate School
and Associate President. He is a
graduate of Wheaton College,
Princeton Theological Seminary
and Yale Univ. (Ph.D.). He wrote
Where'er the Sun.

J. Christy Wilson, Professor of
World Evangelization, Gordon-
Conwell Theological Seminary,
spent 22 years as a missionary in
Afghanistan, first as a teacher and
principal of a government school,
later as pastor of the Community
Christian Church, Kabul, and the
executive of the International
Afghan Mission. Author of Today's
Tentmaker and Afghanistan: The
Forbidden Harvest, he graduated
from Princeton Univ. and Seminary
and the Univ. of Edinburgh (Ph.D.).

Thomas W. Gillespie became the
fifth President of Princeton Theolo-
gical Seminary in September, 1983,
following pastorates in Garden
Grove and Burlingame, CA. He has
served on various G.A. committees,
including the Standing Comm, on
Theological Education and the Task
Force on Biblical Authority and In-
terpretation. In San Francisco Pres-
bytery he was Moderator and Chair
of Ministerial Relations. He is a
graduate of Pepperdine College,
Princeton Seminary and Claremont
Graduate School (Ph.D.).

April 27-28, 1984

Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, New Jersey

Schedule

Friday, April 27

3:00PM REGISTRATION and GET-
ACQUAINTED TIME
Main Lounge of Campus
(Registration will continue for late arrivals)
4:30 OPENING SERVICE OF PRAISE - Miller
Chapel

5:30 Supper - Campus Center
7:00 PRAISE, WORSHIP, PREACHING
PRAYER
Miller Chapel

Dr. Sam Moffett, Preacher:

"You Shall Receive Power”

9:00 Ministry and Prayer

Saturday, April 28

8:00 AM Breakfast at Campus Center

9:00 DEVOTIONAL SERVICE - Miller Chapel

9:30 Dr. J. Christy Wilson, Preacher:

"You Shall Be My Witnesses”

10:45 Prayer Groups
12:00 Lunch

1:15 PM AFTERNOON SEMINARS

A. Dr. Moffett

B. Dr. Wilson
2:45 Break

3:30 SERVICE OF WORSHIP and COM-
MUNION
Miller Chapel

Dr. Thomas W. Gillespie, Preacher
5:30 Supper

7:00 SERVICE OF PRAISE and PRAYER

Music Ministry

Nick and Terri TeBordo and Jim Guva of
“Revelation”, Cohoes, New York

Conference Coordinators

The Rev. John Potter
RD 1, Box 529
Ringoes, NJ 08551
The Rev. Robert L. Shannon
14 Oliver Street
Suffem, NY 10901

Presbyterian Charismatic Communion

2245 N W 39th Street
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma 73112

Purpose

This fellowship was established to work for and
pray for a continuing spiritual renewal throughout the
Church of Jesus Christ, but particularly in the Presby-
terian and Reformed tradition through praise, prayer,
edification and fellowship, to claim the reality and the
power of Pentecost through submission to the Lord-
ship of Jesus Christ under the leadership of the Holy
Spirit; to extend Christ's Kingdom on earth by pro-
claiming the Gospel to non-Christians and by pro-
moting love, peace, unity and purity not only among
Presbyterians and others in the Reformed tradition,
but also among all Christians in a truly inclusive
ecumenical spirit to the glory of God the Father, Son
and Holy Spirit.

Variety of Services

The Presbyterian Charismatic Communion offers
a variety of services, including the Spirit Alive prog-
ram for congregational renewal, bi-monthly Renew-
al News, teaching booklets, teaching tape ministry,
Directory of Presbyterian/Reformed-led Praise and
Prayer Groups, international, national and regional
conferences, Pastors’ Retreats and Spiritual Life Re-
treats, sharing charismatic renewal with individuals
and judicatories, plus other materials and services.

Contributions

Your contributions will enable PCC to continue to
be a means for bringing spiritual renewal to the Pres-
byterian and Reformed Churches around the world.
A minimum contribution of $15.00 per annum will
allow PCC to serve you and other members of the
Reformed tradition with the services listed above. To
qualify for tax deduction, make checks payable to
Presbyterian Charismatic Communion or to PCC.

PCC was founded May, 1 966.

Seminars

Two seminars will be offered Saturday afternoon from
1:15 to 2:45 P.M.. Drs. Moffett and Wilson will take this
opportunity to further develop their themes. There will
be ample time for questions and dialogue as we seek to
further understand what it means to ‘‘receive power"
from God and to be His “witnesses". The location of
the seminars will be available at the registration table.

Prayer Groups

Emphasis must always be placed on our giving as well
as receiving when we gather together in the name of
Jesus Christ. A number on your name tag (given when
you arrive) will indicate the Prayer Group you are
invited to attend Saturday morning. This provides the
occasion for giving as we share concerns and thanks-
givings, support one another in prayer, and join our
hearts together in intercession for the whole of God’s
people and the world. It is “power" and “witness" at
work. Prayer group locations will be available at the
registration table.

Tapes and Books

A book table will be set up at the Campus Center.
Cassette tapes of the three addresses will be available
as well.

PCC Booklets will be available:

The Healing Ministry of the Local Church
by Robert Bayley

Releasing the Power of the Holy Spirit
by Brick Bradford
The Gifts of the Holy Spirit
by Barbara Pursey

Plus PCC’s most widely used.

Healing for the Homosexual

Also for corporate and personal worship:

Dove Songs

General Information

Place - The Seminary is located on the west side of
Princeton, NJ. There is a large parking lot behind the
Campus Center. Coming by train, take the local from
Princeton Junction to Princeton. Seminary is about two
blocks from Princeton Railroad Stations.
Registration - There is a $5.00 registration to cover
materials and part of the Conference costs. Freewill
offerings will be received on Friday night and Saturday.
Meals - Meals will be available at the Campus Center.
Meal tickets will be available for supper Friday and
lunch and supper Saturday at $14.00 for all three
meals. Saturday breakfast may be purchased separ-
ately.

Accommodations - Conferees must make their own
arrangements. A partial listing of area motels follows.
Rates are listed as of November. 1983, and are subject
to change. Be sure to book well in advance.

Hotels/Motels Single Double

Princeton Motor Lodge $34.00 $36.00

US Rt. 1 & Meadow Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609)452-2100

Holiday Inn $57.00 $63.00

US Route 1
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609)452-9100 or (800)238-8000

Howard Johnson’s $51.00 $59.00

US Route 1

Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
(609)896-1100 or (800)654-2000

Treadway Inn $55.00 $63.00

US Route 1
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609)452-2500

Nassau Inn $67.00 $79.00

Palmer Square
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609)921-7500

Clarksville Motel $25.44 $42.00

US Rt. 1 & Quaker Bridge Rd.

Princeton, NJ 08540
(609)452-2233

Town House Motel $42.00 $55.00

Rt. 33 & NJ Turnpike
Hightstown, NJ 08520
(609)448-2400

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Southern California and Hawaii -JL

prc8BvtcriIn

Vol. 49, No. 5

USPS486-600

May 1984

KOREANS MARK 100
YEARS

Presbyterian missionaries arrived in
Korea one hundred years ago this year.
The Presbytery of Los Ranchos will
celebrate the faithfulness of the church
to this expression of the Great Com-
mission at its May 1 2th meeting by cal-
ling on the Korean Presbyterian Minis-
tries Commission (KPMC), the Rv.
Joseph Song, president, to lead in wor-
ship.

Dr. Samuel H Moffett, Professor of
Ecumenics and Mission, Princeton
Theological Seminary, and former
missionary to Korea, will be the Theo-
logical Reflection speaker.

Dr. Moffett is the son of the pioneer
missionary to Korea, Dr. Samuel A.
Moffett, whose service was in the north
of that now divided country.

The meeting will be held in the new
sanctuary of the La Habra Hills Presby-
terian Church, 951 N. Idaho St., La
Habra, (213) 691-3296. This new build-
ing will be dedicated Sunday, May
20th at 7:30 p.m.

The 100 years of mission work in
Korea will be celebrated next month
when the National Korean Presby-
terian Council meets for its annual ses-
sion in Los Angeles.

The Rv. Peter Kwon of Pacific Presby-
tery chairs a committee marking this
century milestone. Events will be held
at Korean United Church on Jefferson,
the first Korean Presbyterian Church in
this country and a by-product of the
mission work in Korea.

In 1 906 newcomers from Korea, who
had been Presbyterians there, formed
this first "mother" church in the United
States.

Workshops will be held Saturday,
June 2 in two parts: (1) General
sketches of 1 00 years of mission work in
Korea and the U.S.A., and (2) Discus-
sion of future challenges in the Korean
church and its ministry in this country.
Included will be attention to cultural
differences and ministry to poverty
areas.

A special worship program will be
held Sunday, June 3, at 4 p.m. for all
Korean churches in Los Angeles, with a
combined choir. The moderator of the
General Assembly in Korea will be the
speaker. There will be a special recog-
nition of former missionaries to Korea.

PROGRAM GRANTS

For 1984 the Synod Self-Development of People Committee had available

$26,500 to respond to proposals from community groups totaling well over

$100,000. The allocations made after serious review and evaluation were as follows:

♦ Hispanic Employment Program Organization, Inc. (HEPO), $5,000. This program
assists Hispanic applicants in job placement and promotion through personal
assistance with employment applications, resumes, training or tutoring and
follow-up. SDOP funds add to the support of job develppment staff.

♦ La Casa de San Gabriel Tutorial Project, $5,000. These funds will provide a base
budget for a volunteer program of tutoring for neighborhood children whose
school does not provide this. Enlisting and training parents as tutors, as well as
effective parenting programs, will be a part of this effort.

♦ Casa Blanca Youth Leadership Program, $5,000. This program aims at delinquency
prevention and behavioral redirection through greater utilization of existing ser-
vices and supplemental programs for a target group of young people in the Casa
Blanca community Riverside. Seminars with "role models," peer counseling, and
adult-youth interaction will be utilized.

♦ La Raza Writing Project, $2,500. This is seed money at the start-up of a campaign
to cultivate and develop young writers in the Chicano community (with the same
zeal that the mural movement has demonstrated) through a series of writing
contests and appropriate concomitants.

♦ Parkinson/Stroke Peer Support Project, $4,000. For the part-time services of a
bi-lingual group worker/community organizer to assist clients and families in the
Japanese American community to organize, describe goals/objectives, and move
toward a self-directing and self-sustaining efrort.

♦ Comision Femenil Mexicana, $5,000. Seed money to assist in activating other
potential funds for establishing a residential group home treatment program for
adolescent delinquent girls involved in the juvenile justice system.

At a recent meeting of the Hunger Program Advisory Committee action was taken to

make the following grants to programs located in Southern California or effecting

food and nutrition programs here:

♦ Ecumedia, $7,500. This is a multi-media consortia that will use the funds toward a
larger budget involving a network that will seek general interpretation and cover-
age by secular and religious media of aspects of domestic hunger, and will create
an extensive data pool for making available stories, documentaries, specials, etc.,
to those able to use this information.

♦ Interfaith Hunger Coalition of Southern California, $5,000. The I.H.C. is the
comprehensive "Hunger Program" in Southern California for organizing a
clearing-house/forum of denomination/community groups engaged in domestic
and global hunger issues/action including direct assistance, public policy, direct
marketing, education, information and referral.

♦ Food Policy Advocate, $6,000. This grant supports the food marketing and nutri-
tion advocacy work of the Office for State Affairs in Sacramento which has effected
legislation related to such issues as farmers' markets, gleaners' projects, surplus
food availability, WIC (women, infants, child health support) and senior nutrition
legislation.

♦ California Association of Family Farmers, $10,000. The Family Farm Organizing
Project is an effort to serve the interests of the small to moderate scale family
farmer in California through programs of advocacy, consti tuent education, leader-
ship training and services.

S.F.T.S. held a hearing on a new vision paper for the Southern California Extension Center.
Participants (left to right) included Rv. Ross Kinsler, Rv. John Skelly, Rv. Harold Hunt, and
Eugenia Cloud.

MAY MISSIONARIES IN
SYNOD

Former missionaries and currently overseas
associates, Rv. Richard and Bea Smith, offer
programs on South America, Asia or the
Holy Land. Call Yari at the Synod office for
further information.

YEARBOOK '85
ORDER NOW

Now is the time to order the 1985
Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study
in quantities that will s^ve Presby-
terians a lot of money. Bulk orders with
full payment should be placed before
July 15 to guarantee savings of 50 to 60
percent over the cost of single copies.
Last year the Synod of Southern Cali-
fornia and Hawaii secured more than
6,600 copies at such savings through
bulk ordering.

This Mission Yearbook will feature
new articles outlining practical prin-
ciples for doing evangelism within the
church; each Sunday page will offer
Scripture readings, a prayer of dedi-
cation, a hymn, lectionary and a Minute
for Mission; 20 pages of full color
photos of Presbyterian mission will be
presented; and the worship and mis-
sion life of Native American Presbyte-
rians will be highlighted.

The bulk ordering process allows
presbyteries and congregations to
purchase 50 or more copies of the 1 985
Mission Yearbook (mailed to the same
address) for $2.00 per copy; 100 or
more copies of the Mission Yearbook
(in multiples of 50 only) for $1.50 per
copy (mailed to the same address).
Send prepaid orders to: Presbyterian
Distribution Services, 905 Interchurch
Center, 475 Riverside Drive, New
York, NY 10115

RACISM FILM TO BE
SHOWN

The Racism Committee and the
Committee on Social and Ecumenical
Concerns of the Synod will be co-
sponsoring the showing of "Coming of
Age," an excellent, probing and soul-
searching film on racism, sexism,
homosexuality, etc., produced by New
Days Films in cooperation with the Na-
tional Council of Christians and Jews,
on PBS Channel 28, at 10 p.m., Friday,
May 11, and several times thereafter.
Be sure to see it!

2 Southern California and Hawaii / May 1984

South Africa:
Exchanges in
Understanding

"Bind Us Together, Lord," is a song
we learned in South Africa — a song
which speaks of our unity in Christ. Last
February the United Presbyterian
Women's Organization sent us — 25
very diverse women — to learn about
South Africa. We were to share with
Christians there, learning about what it
parallels to our life in the United States.

What did we find? We found a di-
vided and very confusing country — a
country of distinct groups (black, col-
ored, Asian, and white), which by law
must live apart from each other; a
country where black people, who
make up 73% of the population cannot
vote in national elections; a country
where laws control where one may
live, what work one may do, and where
permits are required if white people
want to visit in black ureas.

Vet this is also one of the most Christ-
ian countries in the world, and a coun-
try where the majority of the Protes-
tant white people are of the reformed
tradition.

Scenes from our 3% week stay re-
main etched in memory:

-The black grandmother at the
church in the black township outside
johannesburg who pleaded "Don't
t forget us."

-The black children playing "My
Body is the Temple of the Lord" on the
marimbas at a Catholic Chujch in
Namibia;

-Alar Boesak, a coldted chaplain at
•• tho Univtttsihjrof the Western Cape,
telling us that, if we don't speak about
our experience, we're nothing more
than "religious tounsts";

-Rows upon rows of corrugated
shncks — the new quarters for black
people who are being forcibly relo-
cated.

Vet this very confusing picture was a
mirror for us. Just as we began to judge
the White South Africans for their op-
pression and racial prejudice, we recal-
led the separation and prejudice in our
own country.

"Bind us together," we sang in a
country where Apartheid ((Separate-
ness) is the law of the land. And we felt
bound together— -with each other and
with our South African sisters. "Bind us
together" is still our prayer— for the
people of South Africa, for the people
of our own country, and for the divided
body of Christ throughout the world.

STATEMENT of the "South Africa:
Exchanges in Understanding" partici-
pants:

We know by faith that all people are
created in God's image and for each
other. God s gift to us is our common
humanity.

We know by faith that in Christ's life
and self-giving our unity has been
made stronger and clearer: we are
members of Christ's body.

We know by faith that God who re-
conciles us in Christ is entrusting to us a
ministry of reconciliation.

We joined the "South Africa: Ex-
changes in Understanding" journey (1)
to see God's image on the faces of our
sisters and brothers; (2) to experience
our unity in creation and in Christ; (3) to
bear witness to God's message of
reconciliation.

HISPANIC ADVOCATE AWARDS

Hispanic Advocate Awards were presented to Rv. Dr. Harry (Hap) Brahams, pastor of
the La Jolla Presbyterian Church and Rv. Dr. John Chandler, executive presbyter of
Los Ranchos Presbytery. "Hap" and John were honored at the Hispanic Commission
celebration in recognition of their contribution on behalf of Hispanic ministries in
the synod. Rv. Rafael Aragon and Andres Gutierrez, the new chairperson of the
commission, made the presentations.

1.0. M. VISITORS

Circulating at present through the presbyteries are the Rv. Fuad J. Bahnan and Wadad Bahnan
on an Internalization of Mission program. Bahnan is pastor of the National Evangelical Church
of Beirut and is informing his hearers on conditions in the Middle East. Maxine Greenlee,
Mission Alive chairperson of synod, is the contact person for any churches or groups desiring
to hear Rv. Bahnan (pronounced Bach-nan). He holds an A.B. from the University of London, a
Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary and is a candidate for a Ph.D. from Hartford
Seminary. He is fluent in English.

NEW CITIZENS ARE SALUTED WITH RECEPTION

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Our sojourn in faith from the USA to
South Africa has indeed been an ex-
change in understanding. Through our
varied experiences, we have sensed
the triumph of the human spirit over
the desolation of the body and mind.
We have seen the beauty of the land
marred by the government's forced re-
settlement of Black people into in-
humane conditions, with no regard to
self-determination and maintenanceof
community life. In spite of such repres-
sion, we have heard prophetic voices
confidently expressing their hope for
the future. Through dialogue with vari-
ous persons, we have experienced
genuine sharing of frustrations and
pains, as well as dreams and hopes for
the future.

In spite of governmental control, we
experienced among the people we
met a sense of urgency for fullness of
life, a determination to alleviate
human suffering through education,
health care, and self-help projects.

We felt that the response to our pre-
sence, in some ways has meant an
opening of doors, a building of bridges,
a new awareness of the need for recon-
ciliation and hope for the future.

COMMITMENT: We acknowledge
that anything that places barriers in the
way of living our unity in creation and
in the church is contrary to Christian
faith.

We recognize that God's authentic
word for our time may not get through
to us unless it is tested and at times
corrected by the insights of others dif-
ferent from ourselves.

Therefore, in the spirit of solidarity
and prayer with fellow Christians in the
USA and in South Africa, we commit
ourselves to:

x share honestly and courageously the
truth of our experiences,
x work for justice and peace within
our own families, our churches,
ecumenically throughout our com-
munity, and within our country,
x become politically involved in
legislation and advocacy,
x address issues such as housing pat-
terns, racism, education, and the
role of women,

x support the Sullivan Code and lift up
the church's stand on multi-
nationals,

x identify and support groups that are
building bridges between ethnic
groups and among all peoples.

As we identify the need for change
in the lives of others, we see within
our own lives the same need. We
pledge ourselves to a continuing
sensitivity to the issues that separate
us in the areas of racism, sexism, and
classism.

Benigno and Adolfina Ros, who be-
came United States citizens last
month, were saluted with a reception
by the First Presbyterian Church of En-
cino.

The Ros family, which includes two
girls who also have earned their
citizenship, were in a group of cuban
refugees transported in 1962 from
Miami, Florida, to Los Angeles, under
the auspices of Presbyterian churches.

The Encino church sponsored the
Ros family, with Dr. and Mrs. Dale
Rode and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Crawford
serving as their special mentors,
coordinating acquisition of housing,
employment and other necessities of
life.

Mr. and Mrs. Ros were born in Man-
zanilla, Cuba, where they attended
public schools and were married. Ben
took advanced courses in business
administration before going to work in
his father's Chevrolet agency, ulti-
mately taking charge of the firm's used
car lot and repair department.

When the pair came to Miami in
1961, Ben worked as a service station
attendant.

Since 1966 he has worked for the
Encino church as building superin-
tendent and also has served as a
deacon and as treasurer of the Nautilus
Mariners.

One of their daughters, Margarita, is
married to Gerald Beebe and has four
daughters and a son, Scott, who re-
cently was accepted at Brigham Young
University. The Beebes live in Valen-
cia.

Their other daughter, Isabel, is an
assistant manager in TransAmerica's
claim department and resides in Sun
Valley.

Adolfina and Benigno Ros, center, stand
with pastor Robert T. McDill, center, rear;
sponsors Joyce and Dale Ride of Encino,
left, and Carol and Lloyd Crawford of Ir-
vine.

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Southern California and Hawaii May 1984 3

LOVE MADE VISIBLE

Nineteen persons, representing
each of the seven Presbyteries, con-
cluded a 10 day urban mission tour in
the Synod on April 8, 1 984. Three areas
of mission had particular meaning for
us. We learned and want to share the
following:

On Ethnic Ministries and Mission:

We discovered that there is much
more diversity in our Synod than we
ever realized. The ability to worship in
one's own language helps each to ex-
press needs, feel accepted and feel
less isolated. We want to continue to
meet with our brothers and sisters in
Christ that we may listen to each other
and share common experiences. We
felt a joyous oneness in Christ that we
want to share with our own congrega-
tions and others." We met with His-
panic, Filipino, Thai, Cambodian, Ko-
rean, Formosan, Japanese, Native
American and Black Presbyterians
throughout the Synod. We visited the
Casa de la Esperanza Orphanage in
Tijuana and also the St. Peter's By The
Sea Congregation in Palos Verdes that
brings overseas pastors to be mission
partners through the Internationaliza-
tion in Mission Project.

On Social and Justice Ministries:
"We learned that many people still
have very basic needs for food, clo-
thing, shelter and jobs. The church, in
addition to helping to meet those
needs can also provide the emotional
and spiritual support that can heighten
self-esteem and confidence and really
make the difference in each life. We
also learned that those who serve
Christ to meet the needs of others are
rewarded by having their own lives
transformed. There is a place where
every person in the church can serve
others." We saw mission come alive in
crisis centers, programs with senior
citizens, children, undocumented
workers, refugees, people on welfare
and military families.

On Educational Ministries: "We
learned that churches can combine
their own, community and federal
funds to do educational programs that
will meet the total needs of a
community — the social, economic and
spiritual concerns of alnage groups."
We saw the church Responding with
day care centers, alternative schools,
bible study classes, craft centers, job
training. We heard about campus
ministry and the Syrlod Camps & Con-
ferences Program. ;

In evaluating some feelings experi-
enced on the trip, we felt the follow-
ing: surprise, fellowship, acceptance,
healing, joy, love, affirmation, excite-
ment, contrast, inspired, stretched,
tired!, frustrated, appreciation and
bubble gum!! (You can think about that
one!)

It was an exciting trip — one in which
we saw the church alive, well and
growing and ministering to the whole
person in the name of Jesus Christ. We
can't wait to share our story — why not
invite one of us to share it with you!
Participants were: Santa Barbara: Mer-
cedes Serra; Pacific: Barbara Randall;
San Fernando: Margaret Moses; San
Gabriel: Betty Hessel, Ruth Yoder,
Elsie Klingman, Karen Kiser; Los Ran-
chos: Polly Lamken, Virginia Black;
Riverside: Joseph Karcher, Florence
Blacharski, llene Jones, Rosemary

Urban Mission Tour visits the Presbyterian
Crisis Denter in San Diego.

The Creative Child Project at the West-
minster Neighborhood Association, Inc., in
Watts.

Ms. Orchid Van Beek conducts Bible Study
(Lay Pastor Hispanic Congregation at St.
Andrews, Redondo Beach)

Pastor Wen meets group in parking lot, tel-
ling about plans to rebuild Formosan
Presbyterian Church on Olympic Boule-
vard.

Hearron, Elsie Yochem, Irene Griffin,
Mona Oswald; San Diego: Maria
Fiorini. Moderator Joan Carpenter and
Marion Evans of the Synodical Planning
Team led the event. Others on the
Planning Team were: Cleopal

Weeden, Pat Niles, Nancy Kersten,
Joanne Wheeler and Hilda Cuadra.

Call the Synod or Presbytery Offices
for telephone numbers of the partici-
pants.

IN DEFENSE OF READING

By Rv. Harriet Crosby

The Church may wish to consider
adopting a "new" spiritual discipline
into the Corpus of Christian Spirituality.

Our world is speeding through the
1980's propelled by such high-tech
"miracles" as video, personal com-
puters, cable TV and various other
forms of instant communication. Given
the rapidity of technological develop-
ment, especially those technologies
concerned with producing visual im-
ages, the ancient art of reading may be
in serious jeopardy by the year 2000.
We live in an era where words are no
longer written — they are "processed";
where we are content to wait for the
movie version to come on cable, rather
than read the book; where video
entertainment and computer games
help pass the time, while we claim we
have no time to waste reading books.

There is the obvious threat of grow-
ing illiteracy in the United States, but
the danger, to the church in particular,
is much moresubtle. We are faced with
the gradual atrophy and loss of the
imagination. Throughout church his-
tory the practice of the classical
spiritual disciplines (prayer, medi-
tation, Bible study, worship, etc.) re-
quired the healthy, active, creative use
of the imagination. In The Mind of the
Maker Dorothy Sayers claims we are
most like God when we create. Using
the imagination is an intensely creative
activity. Drawing on the history,
poetry, stories, and parables of Scrip-
ture, use of our imagination enables us
to create our own faith images to
deepen our personal experiences of
the mystery of God.

Reading expands and exercises the
private, internal world of our imagi-
nation. Rather than depending on the
electronics and entertainment indus-
tries to provide images for us, reading
allows us to create pur own unique per-
sonal images of oursejves and God. We
begin to see with our own inner eyeour
story and Jesus' story interwoven and
recreated in that novel or biography.

HOW MANY Y'ALLf

At the end of 1983, three of the
Presbyterian Conference Centers were
in operation the complete year, after
two of them had been reopened. Ran-
cho La Scherpa reopened in April of
1983. The question is, "How many
overnights did the Centers serve guests
in this transitional year?"

Big Bear served 6,507 overnights,
Rancho La Scherpa served 2,442, and
Wyliewoods with its capacity of 36
served 1,671. Pacific Palisades, includ-
ing its contract for a Los Angeles City
Camp program from October through
December, served 10,297 for a grand
total of 20,917 overnights in 1983.

Of the groups using the Centers, 73%
at Wyliewoods were Presbyterian,
52% at Big Bear were Presbyterian, and
57% at Rancho La Scherpa. Pacific
Palisades with its sizaable school con-
tract, served 65% non-Presbyterians.
Since Presbyterians receive a discount,
non-Presbyterian use additionally
helps support the Centers when not
being used by Presbyterians.

These figures for 1 983 can now serve
as the base to use for encouraging more
use of the Centers in the future.

REVISITING AFRICA

Church World Services has launched
a new magazine called Connections
which is designed to link churches in
the United States with churches over-
seas. The first issue focused on world
hunger and included an article by Ann
Beardslee, co-director of the Presby-
terian Hunger Program. Ms. Beardslee
wrote of her experiences in visiting a
West Africa village where she and her
husband, Howard, had served as
missionaries 25 years ago.

She writes, "When we accept the
fact that hungry Ethiopians who sleep
on cold mountainsides without
adequate clothing and blankets, are
really our brothers and sisters, the
compassion of Christ compels us to be a
part of the "redemption." Then we
begin to understand that unwittingly
we also are part of thte 'enslavement.'
And then we will not ask hungry Ehtio-
pians whethei^their government is an
'ally' at this moment in history. We will
not say, 'Go wash your hand first' but
we will say, 'Come and share our
food'."

Church World Service stands
alongside our sisters and brothers
when it helps the Ethippian Orthodox
Church minister in Christ's name to
three million malnourished persons in
that country. We are cooperating there
with Catholic Relief Services, Lutheran
World Relief, the Mennonite Central
Committee, the American Friends Ser-
vice Committee and several other
agencies including UNICEF.

New^experiences collided with old
memories, as my visit to Farakala en-
ded,. Chayfoo, the young n.othef,
picked up her heavy pestle and began
pounding grain. "Are you tired?" i
asked, recalling that her baby was only
six days old. "No," she replied, "J'm
not tired, for it is time to start preparing
today's food."

I listened to the children playing in
the courtyard. One little girl sat close
to Grandmother Zidi and carefully imi-
tated her every move as the old woman
deftly picked the seed from the cotton
which would be spun into thread. I
realized that this scene has been re-
peated for centuries and wondered
what the next years would bring. What
will life be like for my little friend? Will
she grow up?

Grandmother Zidi inquired about
our three children: Were they well?
Were they married? Did they have
children? Yes, I responded. They are all
healthy and all married. And indeed
we are grandparents. And then I
remembered a question asked many
years ago in another African village:
"Why do your children live and mine
die?" That woman also had said to me,
"I don't understand your God." the
piercing reality is that I could not con-
vince her about the love of God except
through what I do and how I live.

Chayfoo listened when Grand-
mother Zidi asked about the health of
my family. As I began telling my friends
goodbye, Chayfoo looked at me and
said, "Take my son and after a few
years bring him back home to me." My
heart was squeezed with compassion. I
could not ... I should not ... take
Nafoo from his family. But I cannot
and I will not . . . forget the Nafoos of
our world who have the same right to
live, and the same right to eat, as I.

4 Southern California and Hawaii / May 1984

San Francisco Theological Seminary

SEMINAR FOR PASTORS

The Southern California Extension
Center, San Francisco Theological
Seminary, has announced a seminar for
pastors on "Nurture of Children in Re-
formed Worship" to be held on May 1 6
a t the Claremont Presbyterian Church,
Claremont, from 9:30a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Ross Kinsler, the director, working
with the Educational Consultants of the
Presbyteries, announced the program
as a response to a need ff It by many
pastors in the area o^ the church’s
ministry with children and the role of
the pastor.

The topic will be "Let the Children
Come" and the goal is to enable pas-
tors to study the theological rationale
for the participation of children in wor-
ship. The Workshop leaders will be Rv.
Dr. R. David Steele, pastor, Christ
Presbyterian Church, Terra Linda, and
Rv. Dr. Richard Green, San Clemente
Presbyterian Church.

The C&CS Committee has agreed to
support and publicize the event, which
will cost $10.

ART EXHIBITION

"Impressions of Martin Luther King,
)r.. His Life and Work" will be dis-
played between April 27 and May 30 at
the Davidson Conference Center,
University of Southern California.
Admission is free. The artise,' Avery
Clayton, President of the Western
States Black Research Center, will
serve as director of this exhibition of
works by artists which reflect Dr. King's
ideals and purposes.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY
NOMINATIONS

New nomination forms for possible
nomination to a board or agency of our
reunited Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
at the G.A. level have been designed
for use by any member of the
denomination. Forms are. available
from the Synod. Stated Clerk's office
along with the brochure describing
each committee's focus and responsi-
bilities, and outlining amount of time
needed to serve.

It is particularly important that ethnic
persons, women, young people, and
disabled persons complete these
forms, so that the diversity of our
church can be represented on the vari-
ous committees.

When a nomination form is com-
pleted, it is sent to the General Assem-
bly Office, Room 1201, 475 Riverside
Drive, New York, New York 10115,
and is kept on file for three years.

Following General Assembly 1984,
all nominations not on the new form
will be discarded from the files. A letter
will be sent to all of those persons cur-
rently in the file to ask them to update
their nomination form.

Please consider serving the church in
this way, and involve yourself in the
General Assembly Nominating pro-
cess.

PRESBYTERIAN CONFERENCES

COLLEGE CAREER
CONFERENCE A SUCCESS

Over 80 enthusiastic participants
gathered for the annual Southern Cali-
fornia Presbyterian College/Career
Conference, March 23 to 25 at the Big
Bear Conference Center.

Around the theme Life on Christ To-
day, Journey Inward/Journey Outward
the conference explored matters of
faith and belief and relationships to the
world. The Bible teacher Dr. Herman
Waetjen professor of New Testament
studies at San Francisco Theological
Seminary, led four presentations on the
gospel of John.

The planning committee is en-
thusiastic about expanding the confer-
ence next year.

Conferees gather for worship at the Vesper
site.

Collegians gave rapt and enthusiastic atten-
tion to Dr. Waetjen's Bible studies.

Racial Justice
Advocates Academy

EVENT III

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at .Firsfunited
Presbyterian Church
1809 West Boulevard
Los Angeles 9001 9
i F (213)935-5204

Director of Young Couples Min-
istry . . . Grace Presbyterian
Church, Los Angeles (Montebello
area). To establish and maintain
programs for 18 to 35-year-olds.
Ten to twelve hours per week.
$300 month plus mileage. Call
(213) 728-9157 for interview.

SCHOLARSHIP TIME

It's not too early to begin thinking of
providing scholarships for sending
people to the Synod Summer Camps.

Many local congregations, and some
presbyteries have scholarship funds to
help out. The Synod is trying to provide
a supplementary Scholarship Fund for
those who have no other resource. The
present balance is $5.00. Contributions
can be sent to Camp Scholarships,
Presbyterian Conferences, 1501 Wil-
shire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. 90017.

NEEDS CORNER

Electric typewriter in good condition
needed for Presbyterian Conference
Center at Wyliewoods. If you can do-
nate one, please contact Ray Heer in
the Synod office.

PEACE-ING LIFE
TOGETHER

With summer just around the corner,
we are well underway in our prepara-
tions for the 1984 Synod Summer
Camps. With the Camp theme,
"Peace-ing Life Together," we will be
offering a diversity of opportunities
under the skillful leadership of our
Camp Deans. Those pictured partici-
pated in a day long Training Session
with the Reverend Jim Simpson (Synod
Of Alaska-Northwest), focusing on the
camping theme and program which
was taken from the book of Colossians.
It was a meaningful and thought-pro-
voking day for all!

Our Camp Schedule is listed ag^in,
with openings still available in many of
ourCamps. WewelcomeMr. BobZeile
to our Summer Camp registration team.
He is a volunteer from Calvary Presby-
terian Church, South Pasadena. We are
very grateful for the work that he and
Mona Gallardo are doing signing up
people for Camp. If you need informa-
tion and/or registration forms, please
contact your Presbytery Office, or the
Synod Office at 213/483-3840.

We hope you'll choose to be a part of
our camping programs!

DODGER DAY BENEFIT
PLANNED

Presbyterian Day at Dodger Stadium
has been set for Saturday September
29, 1984 at 1:05 P.M. The game will
put the Dodgers against the San Fran-
cisco Giants.

As a benefit for the Synod's Camp
and Conference program, $1.50 of
each $5.00 ticket sold will be so desig-
nated.

Sponsored by the Synod Mariners,
they have contracted for 5000 tickets
and need to sell them all to get the
$1 .50 benefit rate.

Whether a congregation has a
Mariner's group or not tickets can be
sold in each congregation that desires
to do so. Persons interested in being a
ticket chairperson for a local congre-
gation are asked to contact their
Mariner's skipper or their pastors and
then call one of the names listed be-
low. Each ticket chairperson receives a
free ticket for the sale of each 50 tic-
kets. They need to attend an informa-
tion meeting and they will be guests of
the Dodgers for the game on Presby-
terian Day.

Los Ranchos: Esther and Marvin
Topp (213) 637-3609; Pacific: Chuck
and Anita De Lapp (213) 324-5244;
Riverside: Ed and Wendy Gibson (71 4)
681-6766; Santa Barbara: Ray and Les-
trid Thurston (805) 985-1032; San Fer-
nando: Ralph and Marie Haas (213)
366-6293; San Gabriel: Keith and Har-
riet Leonard (213) 337-9995.

BRIEFS

The Rev. & Mrs. Jack (Evelyn) Thomas
have been approved to serve as Volun-
teers in Mission (VIM) at the Presby-
terian Conference Center at Pacific
Palisades. Jack will serve as
Administrative Assistant to Mr. Tom
McKindley the Resident Manager and
Evelyn will work in the office and serve
as a hostess. They will move to the
Center in ,-u'y for a 1 year term. The
VIM program is administered through
the General Assembly Program
Agency.

Jack has served several churches in
Southern California. Upon retirement
in 1 980 he and Evelyn took a tf ip to 27
Mission Stations of the Presbyterian
Church. Calling it "The Trip that
Changed Our Lives," they are willing
to share it with slides in local church
groups. They also have the VIM inter-
pretative slides from General Assembly
available (6% minutes). Phone: 714/
537-4614

A five minute Multi-Media Presenta-
tion "Expanding Horizons" is available
to promote summer camps and confer-
ences and the use of the Conference
Centers by church and other non-profit
groups. It i£ ideal for a minute for mis-
sion or other uses in the local church
program. Please call Jack Thomas, who
has volunteered to do the scheduling
and arrange for its showing.

BobZeile, a member of Calvary Pres-
byterian Church, South Pasadena, has
volunteered to assist with the Registrar
duties for the summer camp program.

Naomi Schondel with her daughter and
son-in-law George, and Karen Herreras
and granddaughter Kelly at her recent
retirement party.

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Anaheim, California

May, 1984

PRESBYTERY TO CELEBRATE
KOREAN CENTENNIAL

OLDER ADULTS WEEK

OLDER ADULTS WEEK - May 13-19 - has
been set aside as a time for PRESBYTER-
IANS to consider how the church can help
older people in need (in their member-
ship and in the community). It is also
a time in which to celebrate the ongoing
contributions of older persons in our
congregations and society.

Pastors have received from the Presby-
terian Office on Aging a one page, two-
sided bulletin (yellow) which suggests
steps that can be taken by the pastor
and the session in making Older Adults
Week a significant experience for the
church and its mission to those who con-
stitute over 50% of the membership of the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

An additional copy of this bulletin may
be secured from the presbytery office.

The presbytery Committee on the Church's
Ministry with Aging Persons will advise
any who seek help with this ministry.
Begin by contacting the Rev. Arthur
Ihnen, Chp. , at 714/837-7280 or Bob
Goodwin at 714/956-3691.

Pastor to Head Ecumenical Body

The Rev. Dale C. Whitney, pastor of
Geneva Presbyterian Church, Long Beach,
was elected and installed as President
of the South Coast Ecumenical Council,
February 24th.

At the same 31st annual assembly of the
Council, Polly Lamken, an elder in the
North Long Beach Community Presbyterian
h°nored as a recepient of one
of the Spotlight Awards" for her devo-
tion to the church and to the larqer re-
ligious community.

Congratulations to both!

Presbyterian mission-
aries arrived in Korea
one hundred years ago
this year. The Presby-
tery of Los Ranchos
will celebrate the
faithfulness of the
Church to this expres-
sion of the Great
Commission at its May
1 2th meeting by cal 1 -
ing on the Korean
Presbyterian Ministries
Commission (KPMC), the
Rev. Joseph Song,
President, to lead in worship.

Dr. Samuel H. Moffett, Professor of
Ecumenics and Mission, Princeton Theolo-
gical Seminary, and former missionary to
Korea, will be the Theological Reflection
Speaker.

Dr. Moffett is the son of the pioneer
missionary to Korea, Dr. Samuel A.

Moffett, whose service was in the north
of that now divided country.

The meeting will be held in the new
sanctuary of the La Habra Hills Presby-
terian Church, 951 N. Idaho Street,

La Habra, 213/691-3296. This new build-
ing will be dedicated Sunday, May 20th
at 7:30 p .m .

Ministers and elder members of presby-
tery (registered with the stated clerk
as elected delegates) will receive full
information in the Docket Mailing of
April 19, including a meal reservation
card to be returned to the host church.

WORTH QUOTING ... and remembering

Integrity will give peace, justice give
lasting security. My people will live in
a peaceful country. -Isaiah 32:17

MYTH3 and MISCONCEPTIONS OF AGING" WORKSHOP ATTRACTS CROWD. The workshon
on ministry with aging persons, held April 7th at Regent's Point P

discovered that there is much lack of information and much misinfo™! ^

pranas?

he Rev. Arthur Ihnen chairs the committee of our presbytery. Y

NEW RESOURCES
in the Resource Center

Films :

1 . "Abound in Hope'

Stewardship Study
Guide . 1 6 mm, color,
sound, 17 min.

Hunger Study Guide
1 6 mm, col or, sound
27 min.

Peacemaking. 16 mm,
Color, sound, 23 min .

Filmstri ps :

1. "Witnessing Together in Central Africa"
Mission

"Navahoe, Story of a Peopl e" . .Mi ssion

"American Indian" Mission

"Born From the Peopl e" .Central America
"Water is Life"... One Great Hour
"Up Golden Creek" Aging

2. "Seeds of Hope'

3. "Beyond War"

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Print Material s :

1. VCS Preview Kits from Augsburg, Fort-
ress, and CE:SA Vacation Ventures.
All kits include a planning guide,
a copy of each grade level teacher's
book, a copy of each grade level
child/pupil book (ages 3 through
adult), teaching packets, song books
promotional materials, order blanks.
Friendship Press 1984-85 Study Kits
for Mission Study: Themes: Korea and
Peacemaking. Preview kit includes:
Study Guides for Children through
Adults; Map; Reading books for all
ages; book of poems.

All of these resources will be available
for check out after May 12.

2.

PRESB YTERIAL-

Central America

Saturday, May 19, 9:30-2:00, Placentia
Presbyterian Church. Theme: MISSION IN
MOTION - REFLECTIONS ON CENTRAL AMERICA.
Speakers will be: Jim White, Campus pas-
tor at CSULB and Chair for Latin American
Study and Solidarity (CLASS); Gloria
Kinsler, a recently returned missionary
in Guatemala; a spokesperson from El
Rescate, a refugee center in Los Angeles
for Central Americans.

A Mexican lunch made by the women of
Divine Saviour will be served. The meet-
ing is open to men & youth also, and all
are encouraged to wear costumes. Prizes
will be awarded for the best.

For reservations ($4) and child care,
contact Virginia Black 213/431-0331 by
May 9. Bring sack lunch for children.

Church Trains Laity for Ministry

Dr. Ronald Sunderland will conduct a
workshop on "Equipping Laypeople for Min-
istry" May 15-18 in the First Presbyter-
ian Church of Downey. The daily sessions
will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Dr. John B. Toay is the pastor.

E.L.M. is based on a theology of minis-
try that pastoral care is a ministry of
the congregation and not just pastors.

E.L.M. is a program of the Institute
of Religion which is located at the
heart of the Texas Medical Center in
Houston. The Institute was constituted
in 1955 to play an important part in the
provision of pastoral ministry to TMC
hospitals.

PEACE WITH JUSTICE WEEK

Pastors and sessions are asked to
"address the issue of national and in-
ternational peace and security" during
national "Peace With Justice" Week, May
4-13.

A valuable packet of materials loaded
with suggestions and an attractive
poster with which to announce the week
and its activities is available from:
Peace With Justice Week, 475 Riverside
Drive, Room 712, New York, NY 10115
(212/870-3691).

A sample packet may be examined at the
presbytery office.

For further information, contact Betty
Crowell or Bob Goodwin, 714/956-3691.

PAT KROMMER,
Director, Bishop
Oscar Romero Fund
and formerly of
El Rescate, spoke
with members of
the Whittier
Presbyterian
Church April 11th
following a Lent-
en meal .

She spoke of
the crisis in El
Salvador and neighboring Central American
nations, urging that shipment of arms
cease, and allow the people to solve
their own problems.

WORTH QUOTING and REMEMBERING: A RESPONSE

Today Jetut It being to canefully
humanized, nevolutlonlzed, £ nelatlvlzed.
He. It hewing given tuch a human chanacten,
a copy of ountelvet one. could tay, that
we one losing tight of the. tact that he
It the bond God Almighty. He It not
polished and exqultlte but the One, who
thnough tuffenlng hat eanned the Slight
to demand oun abtolute obedience, tonnen-
den, and even death. We one In dangen of
effectively nlddlng ountelvet of him by
dwelling on elthen foJLte pnemlte. He It
nelthen the tweet Jetut of glonlout
light and countenance non. the tnouble-
tome, beanded, dlttunben of the peace.
Thete one canlcatunet . He It bond, with
hit handt on ut and hit beloved wonld.

-Steven Canten, Patton, La UOiada United

The Acts of Presbytery

The Rev. Fuad Bahnan (L) addressed the
March 17 presbytery meeting on Lebanon
He is seen with his wife and moderator
Dan Park.

The retirement of the Rev. Dr. Young
Hwan Choi (L) was recognized. Rv. Ron
Geisman (R) Conducted the ceremony.

Elder Mary Lee (L) spoke for the Santa
Ana First Church Session, endorsing
Cynthia Cochran (R) to be taken under
care. Chp. Becky Prichard stands in the
center.

Michael Roberts
was received as
a transfer can-
didate and ex-
amined for or-
dination. He
passed his
trials, and was
presented with
a call to be-
come assistant
pastor. East Whittier Church.

The Rev. Mike Meador was installed by
the presbytery to be the assistant pas-
tor, Covenant Church, Long Beach March
18. Seen above are Elder George Johnson,
vice moderator of presbytery, who pre-
sided (L), Mike Meador (C) , and Dr. Don
Emmel (R) , pastor.

SUPPOSE COD GRANTED YOU

a life of 70 years. How would you
spend it? An average person would
spend it like this:

Six years getting an education
Eight years recreating and relaxing
Six years eating
Five years riding in a car
Four years talking
Fourteen years working
Three years reading
Twenty-four years sleeping
How much time to you give to God? If
you went to church every week and
prayed for five minutes every morning
and evening, you would give five
months to God — five months out of
every seventy years.

SEMINARY NEWS

A seminar for pastors, "LET THE CHILD-
REN COME", on the nurture of children in
Reformed Church worship will be held May
16, 1984. Dr. David Steele, pastor,

Christ Church, Terra Linda, CA, will be
the leader.

This seminar is provided by San Fran-
cisco Theological Seminary Extension and
sponsored by the Presbyteries of Los
Ranchos, Riverside, San Diego, and San
Gabriel. Put this event in your calendar.

THE ARMS RACE: SECURITY AND NON-VIOLENCE

This lecture, part of a nine-month
series, will be held Friday, April 27,
7-9:30 pm at St. Paul the Apostle Parish,
10750 Ohio Ave., Westwood. The speaker
will be the Rev. Richard McSorley, S.J.,
consultant to the U.S. Catholic Bishops
Pastoral on Peace and War, Director of
Center for Peace Studies, Georgetown
University, Author: "It's a Sin to Make
a Nucl ear Weapon" .

For registration information please
call (213) 272-8016.

Dodger Day Help Needed

The Mariners are asking each church in
the presbytery to appoint a charperson
or Presbyterian Day at Dodger Stadium.

A total of 5,000 are available for
sale, which, if all are sold, will pro-
duce $7,500 in support of our Presbyter-
ian Conference Grounds.

Names of chairpersons from each church
are to be forwarded to Marvin and Esther
Top (213/637-3609).

The game will be held Saturday, Sep-
tember 29th, 1:05 p.m., with the San
Francisco Giants.

Chairpersons will be attending an In-
formation Meeting.

MEMBERS OF COMMITTEES ON MINISTRY AND
CANDIDATES across the synod met March 19
& 20 at Serra Retreat House, Malibu.

The Revs. Jerry Leksa and Alan Gripe,

New York, and Mary Atkinson, Atlanta,
were the retreat leaders.

THIS and THAT

WOMAN APPOINTED TO EASTERN AREA OFFICE
Jan Simpson-Clement has been appoint-
ed to the Program Agency position of
associate for women's program, with
assignment to the eastern area office.

Many will remember Jan when she was
active in presbytery, became Mrs. John
Clement (Long Beach Probe Enabler), and
with her husband moved to Syracuse, New
York when he became the Executive Pres-
byter for the Presbytery of Cayuga-
Syracuse.

WALK THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT

First Church, Garden Grove invites young
people and adults to "Walk through the
Old Testament" Saturday, June 2, in a
unique 6-hour Bible seminar. For more
information call 714/534-2269.

CHOIR DIRECTOR needed ... South Gate Commu-
nity Presbyterian Church. Thursday even-
ings, Sunday mornings. Rodgers organ
Model 110. $245/month . Call 213/ 927-8457
or 213/567-4246 for interview.

PERMANENT PART-TIME SECRETARY needed for
Garden Grove office of Presbyterian Min-
isters Fund. Call A1 Strong 714/636-2570.

PRE-SCHOOL DIRECTOR sought, 3/4 time.
Christ Presbyterian, Huntington Beach.

Call 714/962-6791.

ADDRESSOGRAPH & GRAPHO TYPE PLATEMAKER
and accessories avai 1 abl e .. Placentia
Presbyterian Church, 714/528-1438.

PART-TIME BOOKKEEPER needed, Community,

San Juan Capistrano, $450/month. Call
714/493-1502 for interview.

DIRECTOR OF YOUNG COUPLES MINISTRY, Grace
Presbyterian, Los Angeles (Montebello
area), 10-12 hrs/week, $300/mo. + mileage.
Call 213/728-9157 for interview.

CONTINUING EDUCATION
OPPORTUNITIES

.. .from Seminaries : Claremont, Fuller,

Princeton, San Francisco
...from Schools: Presbyterian School of

Christian Education, National
Training Center.

...Examples of leadership: Dr. Walter

Brueggemann, Wilbur F. Russell,
Donald E. Miller

Call the Los Ranchos Presbytery Resource
Center for information.

PRESBYTERIANS HAVE
NATIONAL MAGAZINE

Do you know that the Presbyterian
Church (U.S.A.) has a national monthly
magazine? Do you know its name?

Presbyterian Survey is the name of the
magazine. It covers in stories and photos
the broad spectrum of the ministry and
mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.
A.).

Every Presbyterian who wants to be well
informed about his/her church will sub-
scribe to Presbyterian Survey.

Three subscription plans are offered:

1) Every Family Plan - $3.50, church-
es enrolling all active families;

2) Group Plan - $5.00, churches en-
rolling 10% or more of active
fami lies;

3) Individual Plan - $7.00, individu-
al subscription or cost per sub-
subscription if less than 10% en-
rolled.

Editors are "grateful for clippings of
anything you print" that is of universal
interest to the larger church.

Be informed! Help inform the church at
large!

Subscriptions should be sent to 341
Ponce de Leon Ave. N.E., Atlanta, GA
30365.

Don Wright,
synod assoc,
executive for
mission and
stewardship ,
shared the
many re-
sources for
helping a
particular
church do the
mission of
the Presby-
terian
Church
(U.S.A.)
when our
Mission Ad-
vocates met
March 11 in the presbytery conference
room. Jo Ann Anders is the M.A. Coordin-
ator.

Presbytery Calendar

May

1

2

5

7

9

12

15

17

22

23

29

June

4

5

6

3:00 pm Social & Ecum. Concerns
7:00 pm Presby. & Congreg. Dev.

7:30 pm Polity & Records

1:00 pm Worship & Fellowship

SYNOD MEETING - PACIFIC PALISADES

7:30 pm Represent. & Ethnic Min.

9:00 pm Candidates

9:00 am PRESBYTERY - LA HABRA HILLS

7:30 pm Communic. & Church Support

1:00 pm Committee on Ministry

7:30 pm Mission Development

7:30 pm Peace Concerns

7:30 pm Self Development of People

1:30 pm New Church Development

2 : JO pm Evangelism & Membership

7:30 pm Personnel

7:00 pm Clerks of Session Workshop

GENERAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS - PHOENIX

7:30 pm
3:00 pm
7:00 pm
7:30 pm
1:00 pm

Represent. & Ethnic Min.
Social & Ecum. Concerns
Presby. & Congreg. Dev.
Polity & Records
Worship & Fellowship

WITNESS for PEACE

Two California Witness Seminars to Nica-
ragua are filling up. Dates are June 26-
July 4 and October 15-28. Cost for each
trip approximately $850/person. For more
information and reservation, contact Tom
Clagett, 3782 Holden, Los Alamitos 90720.
(213)430-4679.

The Presbytery of Los Ranchos

330 WEST BROADWAY • ANAHEIM, CA. 92805
(714) 95G-3691

ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED

Session Clerks to Receive Training

Clerks of Session will have the oppor-
tunity to sharpen their skills with the
new Book of Order at a two hour workshop
Wednesday, May 23rd .

Sponsored by the Polity and Records
Committee (Rv. Mark Goodman-Morri s , Chp.)
the workshop will begin at 7 p.m. in the
large conference room of the presbytery
offices, 330 West Broadway, Anaheim.

Changes in the Book of Order which
affect sessions and their clerks will be
featured. It will be valuable to both
new and seasoned clerks of session.

It is suggested that attendees park on
Helena and Broadway Streets and enter by
the main doors to the presbytery offices
(On Helena Street).

Bob Goodwin, stated clerk of the pres-
bytery, will conduct the workshop.

POSTAL CARRIER-TIME DATED MATERIALS

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GENERAL FACULTY MINUTES
May 21, 1984

The General Faculty met in the main lounge of the
Campus Center on Monday, May 21, 1984, at 4:00 p.m.

Those present were President Gillespie and the following
members of the Faculty and administrative teaching staff:
Adams, Allen, J. Armstrong, R. Armstrong, Beker, Brower,
Brown, Capps, DeBoer, Edwards, Froehlich, Gardner, Hanson,
Harkey, Howden , Lee, Meyer, Migliore, Moffett , Roberts,
Sakenfeld, Story, Weadon, West, White, and Willard.
Beeners, Livezey, Taylor, Willis, and Whitelock were
excused. The meeting was opened with prayer by President
Gillespie.

The Registrar read the names of candidates for
1983-84 to be recommended to the Board of Trustees
to receive the degree of Master of Arts in Christian
Education. Ms. Gardner moved that those candidates
be approved and certified to the Board. The motion
was passed.

The Registrar read the names of candidates for
1983-84 to be recommended to the Board of Trustees
to receive the degree of Master of Arts in Theological
Studies. Mr. Moffett moved that the candidates be
approved and certified to the Board. The motion was
passed .

Attendance

Nominations

The Registrar read the names of candidates for
1983-84 to be recommended to the Board of Trustees to
receive the degree of Master of Divinity. Dean West
moved that those candidates be approved and certified
to the Board. The motion was passed.

The Registrar read the names of candidates for
1983-84 to be recommended to the Board of Trustees to
receive the degree of Master of Theology. Mr. Moffett
moved that those candidates be approved and certified
to the Board. The motion was passed.

The Registrar read the names of candidates for
1983-84 to be recommended to the Board of Trustees
to receive the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Dean
West moved that those candidates be approved and
certified to the Board. The motion was passed.

A list of all candidates for degrees, prizes,
awards, and fellowships, who were approved by the
Faculty and certified to the Board of Trustees, is
attached to these minutes and is a part hereof.

Mr. Armstrong reported that Mark Gregory Brett
had been nominated to receive the Fellowship in
Practical Theology, and Ms. Brown moved that the
nomination be approved. The motion was passed.

At the President's invitation. Dr. Tryggve
Mettinger spoke to the Faculty regarding his
experience as guest Professor of Old Testament ,
and thanked the Faculty for making his experience
at Princeton a happy and productive one.

For the Library Committee, Mr. Froehlich
admonished the Faculty regarding deadlines for
submission of reserve book lists, and then spoke
about regulations regarding circulation of bound
periodicals .

For the Committee on Professional Studies,

Ms. Edwards reported that permission to graduate
in absentia had been granted to two students.

She moved that the report be received and the motion
was passed.

The minutes of the General Faculty meetings of
April 18 and May 9, 1984, were approved.

There being no further business to come before
the assembly, the meeting was adjourned.

Library

Professional

Studies

Respectfully submitted.

William Brower

249b

Those presents are to certify that after satisfactory examination had upon
the course of study prescribed for the degree of Master of Arts with specializa-
tion in Christian education, the following students of this Seminary, who also
possess the requisite academic credentials, are hereby recommended to the Board
of Trustees of the Seminary for the degree of Master of Arts, and that the
President of the Seminary is authorized, on the part ana behalf of the Faculty,
to subscribe his name to the diploma conferring the degree.

Marta Rachel Ash
Eva Fuad Badr
Judith Marsh CarJson
Judith Ann Grantham Darrow
Kim Jocelyn Dickson
Frances Marie Oeser Easter
Michael George Glaser
Douglas Lee Green
Cynthia Jane Harris
Susan Margaret Hudson
Cesar Antonio Lopez
Eleanor Mary Mimmer
Carole Elaine Smith
Deborah Marianne Wagner

These presents are to certify that after satisfactory examination had upon
the course of study prescribed for the degree of Master of Arts with specializa-
tion in theological studies, the following students of this Seminary, who also
possess the requisite acaaerric credentials, are hereby recommended to the Board
of Trustees of the Seminary for the degree of Master of Arts, and that the
President of the Seminary is authorized, on the part and behalf of the Faculty,
to subscribe his name to the diploma conferring the degree.

Ebenezer Obiri Addo
Frederick Lee Downing
Girgis Salih Ibrahim
Joseph Prakasim

These presents are to certify that after satisfactory examination had upon
the course of study prescribed for the degree of Master of Divinity, the
following students of this Seminary, who also possess the requisite academic
credentials, are hereby recommended to the Board of Trustees of the Seminary for
the degree of Master of Divinity, and that the President of the Seminary is
authorized, on the part and behalf of the Faculty, to subscribe his name to the
diploma conferring the degree.

Albert James Albano
Jeffrey Lawrence Allport
Robert Alexander Amon
William Moore Anderson
David Russell Anson
Robert Warren Arend
Wesley Damian Avram
Brant Dale Baker
Michael Lee Earnes

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Helen Josephine Earoni

James Lee Barstow

Steven Arthur Becker

Robert Philip Benson

Stephen Warren Eest

Richard Edwards Blackwell, Jr.

Paul Makoto Boardman

Ruth Adele Rutzen Bone

Howard Whensel Boswell, Jr.

Brian Henry Boughter

Cynthia Eiler Bowman

David Fred Bowman

Janes Dev/art Erassard

Robert Garrahan Brennan, Jr.

Mark Gregory Brett

Brian Richard Bromberger

Patrick Wade Bultema

James William Campbell

Clarence Carmichael, Jr.

Frederick Norbert Castiglioni

Bryan Cat let t-Sirchio

Melanie Ruth Hammond Clark

Joan Undine Conner

Christopher Rockwell Cottrel

Marilyn Jean Crawford

Cynthia Elizabeth Warner Crowell

Beverly Jean Crute

Wesley Masanosuke Cummins

Ronald Percy Davis

Gerrit Scott Dawson

Judith Duke Dean

Michael Alfred DeArruda

Merry Lorraine Dill

Sally Jane Dixon

Charles Donald Donahue

Kim Macdonald Donahue

Stephen Dale Eastin

Meg Ann Elliott

Kim Violet Engelmann

Susan Lynne Fall

Timothy Lee Fearer

Ann Dixon Ferrell

Kenneth Henry Fortes

Amy Garside Williams Fowler

Samuel Eric Fraser

Paul Leon Fulks, Jr.

Thomas Henry Cainer, Jr.

Haney Anne Gardiner
Jill Hartwell Geoffrion
Timothy Clarence Ceoffrion
Bruce Philip Gillette
Carol Marie Gregg

John Warren Groth
Brenda Alwyn Halbrooks
Stephen Barry Harrison
Suzan Kay Wheeler Kawkinson
Alvyn Wesley Haywood
Beverly Kay Hill
Kenneth Janes Kockenberry
Richard William Hoffarth, II
Patricia Ellen Davis Kovery
Steven Lee Howery
Rebecca Helen Price Janney
Scott Richard Price Janney
Lynn Marie Winkels Japinga
Mark William Jennings
Daniel Carl Jessup
Deadra Elaine Bachorik Johns
Amy Williams Sass Johnson
Terry Hans Johnson
Roland Vincent Jones, Sr.
Barbara Jane Kalehoff
Chul Daniel K in-
Paul John Kim
Calvin Haines Knowlton
John Scott Kroener
Richard Allen Lanford
Michael David Leamon
Elijah K i Churl Lee
Dana Walker Live say
Barbara Euchter Lucia
Ekema Lysongo-Khar
Gail Nicholas Magruder
Robert Jolm Maravalli
Donald Dearborn Marsden, Jr.
Chris Eugene Marshall
Bradley DeWitt Martin
Diana Marie Hagewooa Mat lack
Timothy Scott Maxa
John Swift McCall
James Clarence McCloskey, III
Stephen David McConnell
Sandy Sylvania McLean
Pamela Noel Jagel McShane
Clyde Landis Mellinger, III
John Scott Miller
Jerres Jane Powell Mills
John Wilson Monroe, III
Kirk Walker Mori edge
Steven Michael Mull in
Sue Ann Murray
Harold Hudson Murry
David Paul flyers
Barbara Blythe Andrews Hdovie

Mary Cevilla Nebelsick
Kathryn Lee Nichols
David Craig Noble
Philip Me i 1 Olson

Angela Charlene Eosfield Palacious
Moon Soo Park
Gayle Behan Parker
Thor as Charles Parker
J Christopher Parkerson
Karen Nancy Patricia
Earbara Evelyn Price Patton
Ernest Martin Post, Jr.

Jeffrey Akbar Qamoos
Mark Blaine Ramsey
Douglas Allan Rebberg
Daniel Oven Rift
William Roberts Ripley
Brian Charles Roberts
Linda Ann Roberts
Paul Edward Roberts
Gary E Robertson
Mary Isabel Robinson
Rochelle Robinson Hearn
Frank Rogers, Jr.

Andrew Glenn Ross

Thomas Leo Rousseau

Karen Louise Kelmeke Saunders

Brian Scott Schroeder

Joanne Barrett Scott

Mary Grant Searl

William Robert Sharman, 111

Robert Scott Sheldon

Lynn Jean Shepard

Peter Christopher Stewart Sine

Aland Denton Smith

Michael Erwin Sir i t h

Kyung Suk Soh

David James Stark

Donald John Steele

Sharon Rae Stier

Robert David Strachan

Stanley Brian Stratton

Scott Lee Strohm

Robert Daniel Stuart

William Frederick Swegart , Jr.

Sarah Blyth Taylor
David John Templeton
Marcia Jeanne Thor, as
Douglas Mark Thorpe
Michael Adams Toburen
Sharon Leslie Vandegrjlt
Arthur Warren Walker

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Sally Greene Watkins
James Kenneth Wellman, Jr.

Susan Elizabeth Nicholas Whaley

Stanton Tad Wicker

Constance Diane Wiegmanr

Ceorge Rogers Wilcox

Kent William Newton Winters-llaze 1 ton

These presents are to certify that after satisfactory examination had upon
the course of study prescribed for the degree of Faster of Theology, the
following students of this Seminary, who also possess the requisite academic and
theological credentials, are hereby recommended to the Board of Trustees of the
Seminary for the degree of Master of Theology, and that t be President of the
Seminary is authorized, on the part and behalf of the Faculty, to subscribe his
name to the diploma conferring the degree.

Marilyn McCord Adams
Taeho Ahn

Ronald Melvin Apgar
Fred Rockwell Archer, Jr.

Gerald William Eone
David Edgar Buck, Jr.

Chong Soon Cha

Davia Iloonjin Chai

John Joseph Coughlin

Carolyn Ann Crawford

Robert Claude Davis

Cyril Eduardo Dickson

Robert Edwin Dodson

Gerald Bernard Easley

Kerry Matthew Enright

Robert Kerry Madison Cerstmyer

Paul Edgar Crabill

Larry Steven Grounds

Se V/ on Man

John Woodward Hart

Mark Erling llestenes

Clarence Emery Hilyard

David Charles Hymes

James David Jackson

Arthur James

Victor Hezekiah Job

Kerry Lance Kaino

David Scott Kincaide

Laszlo Kontos

Ralph Anthony Ladmirault

Jimmy Tai-On Lin

Hugh James Mat lack

Robert Joseph McDonald

Willard Blaine McVicker

Waikhom Ibochaoba Meet a i

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Thomas Joseph Mullelly
Clement Attlee Mdovie
Cynthia Graham Neal
Daniel Edwin Paavola
Michael Allan Pyburn
Stephen Calder Row
Juergen Schuster
Virginia Lynn Scott
Chang Sup Shim
Edw in Charles Stern
Hasan Sutanto
Abraham Thomas
Granville Eugene Tyson
Michael John Urch
John Anthony Vissers
Russell Clarence Went ling
Prat hia Hall Wynn
Stanley Eugene Youngberg

These presents are to certify that after satisfactory examination lad upon
the course of study prescribed for the degree of Doctor of Ministr> (Prin), the
following students of this Seminary, who also possess the requisite academic and
theological credentials, are hereby recommended to the Board of Trustees of the
Seminary for the degree of Doctor of Ministry (Prin), and that the President of
the Seminary is authorized, on the part and behalf of the Faculty, to subscribe
his name to the diploma conferring the degree.

Robert Abel son Alper
John Ignatius Cervini
Gary LaPaine Davis
Jacques Andre Denys
Harry Austin Freebairn
I'obert William Gustafson
Nelson Otis Horne
James Wheeler Hulsey
Derek Alan Maker
James Lawrence McCleskey
David Lloyd Moyer
James Theodore Olsen
Chester Alton Pvoberts, Jr.
Sydney Silvester Sadio
Richard Ira Schachet
Jack Ponala Van Ens
Samuel Lee Varner
Gary Allan Wilburn
William Raymond Wolfe

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ese presents are to certify that after satisfactory examination had upon
the course of study prescribed for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, the
following students of this Seminary, who also possess the requisite academic and
theological credentials, are hereby recommended to the Board of Trustees of the
Seminary for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and that the President of the
Seminary is authorized, on the part anc behalf of the Faculty, to subscribe his
name to the diploma conferring the degree.

Suzanne Murphy Coyle
John William Lionel Hoad
Michael William Holmes
Susanne Johnson
Jackson Anaseli Melewo
John Stephen McClure
Kathleen Mary O'Connor
Peri Rasolondraibe
Richard William Re if snyder
Gerardo Ciistian Viviers

These presents are to certify that the following students of this Seminary,
who have satisfied the conditions for the several awards indicated, are hereby
recommended therefor to the Board of Trustees of the Seminary.

The Fe.j lowsh_ig in History : Jeffrey Lawrence All port

The Fel lowshins in Theology: Helen Josephine Baroni, Frederick Norbert
Cast igl ioni

The Fellowship in Pract ical Theology: Mark Gregory Brett
The Fe_n_ovs_hjj) Jn Pel igion and Soc iety : Erian Scott Sc brood or
The Graduate Study Fellowships for the Parish Ministry: Wesley Damian Avram,
Fobert Scott Sheldon

The David Hugh Jones Prize : Kenneth James Kockenben >

The Robert Good 1 in Prize: John Anthony Charles

The Ja£ow Prizes in Homiletics and Speech : David Edward Murphy, Sally Greene
Watkins

J_he Mary Long Greir-Hugh Davies Prize in Preaching. : Dana Walker Lives ay
The. John Alan Swjnk Prize j_n Preaching : John Scott Miller

The Charles J_. Reljer Abiding Memorial Fund Award : Clarence Carmichael, Jr.

The John T\ Galloway Prize in Expository Preaching: Constance Diane Wiegmann
The John W . Meister Award: John Swift McCall

The Samuel Wilson B_l_i z z ard Memorial Award : Bruce Philip Gillette
The Friar Club Alumni Award : Carol Marie Gregg

The. Edler Garnet Hawkins Award for Scholast ic Excellence: Rochelle Pobinson
The .Benjamin Stanton Prize in Old Testament : Loren Theo Stuckenbruck
Jhe E_i. L Wailes Memorial Prize in Mew Testament : Joy Jane lie Hoffman
The Henry Snyder Gehman Award in Old Testament : Janet Lynn Johnson
Ihe Arcj_ibaJ_d Alexander Hodge Prize in Systemat ic Theology : Joy Janelle Hoffman
The Wil 1 jam Tennent Scholarship : Victoria Corliss Brown
Jhe Edward Howe 1 1 Roberts Scholarship in Preaching : Carol Jean Cook
The Presby t e r i a n- LJnJv er_s_ity of Pennsylvania Medical Center Clinical Studies
Award : James Kenneth Wellman, Jr.

*** 1984:8

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The Raymond Irving Lindquist Fellowship in the Parish Min istrv : Michael Patrick
Riggins

The Frederick Neumann Prizes for Excellence in Greek: David Paul Lenz, James
Clark Satterthwaite

Ihe Frederick Neumann Prize for Excellence in Hebrew: Mary Elizabeth Shields
Prizes ori the Samuel Robinson Foundat ion : Steven Jay Ebling, Meg Ann Elliott,
Brenda Alwyn Halbrooks, Keith Ian Harley, Lynn Marie Winkels Japinga, Thomas
Charles Parker

By Order of the Faculty
May 21, 1984

Secretary of the Faculty

THE 18th

ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE ASSOCIATION
OF

KOREAN CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS
IN NORTH AMERICA

Theme:

KOREAN CHRISTIANITY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Stony Point Conference Center
Stony Point, New York
May 24-26, 1984

THURSDAY, MAY 24

3:30-5:45 Registration

6:00-7:00 Supper

Inn Sook Lee, General Secretary
Columbia University

Syngman Rhee
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Sung Kook Shin, Local Committee
Presbyterian Church, Korean-American
Ministries

Wan Sang Han, Program Chairperson
Union Theological Seminary

Sung Koog Hahm
United Methodist Church

Tai Young Yoo, Liturgist
Korean Church of Bronx
Seung Woon Lee, Meditation
First United Methodist Church of Flushing

8:00-8:50 Breakfast

9:00-10:30 PANEL I: KOREAN CHURCH AND KOREAN CHRISTIANITY

IN THE PAST

Chairperson: Soon Kwan Hong

East Toronto Korean Presbyterian Church
1 "Missionaries and the Korean Church"

Jai-Keun Choi
Boston University

2. "The Colonialist Historiography of the Early Missionaries:

Two Kinds of Justice"

Jong- Sun Noh

New Haven Korean Church

3. "The Early Period of Korean Protestant Churches and the Paekchong:
the Untouchables of Korea"

Soon Man Rhim

The William Paterson College of New Jersey

10-30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:45 PANEL II: KOREAN IMMIGRANT CHURCH

Chairperson: Choon Whe Koo

Korean-American Church Women United
1 "The Korean Immigrant Church and Korean Ethnicity"

Ilsoo Kim
Drew University

2. "A Demographic Analysis of Korean Immigrant Church"

Eui Hang Shin
University of South Carolina

7:15-9:00 OPENING SESSION:

Convenor

Opening Meditation
and Prayer

Welcome Remarks

Program Announcements

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
"Frontiers in Mission"

9:00 Reception

FRIDAY, MAY 25

7:15-7:45 Morning Devotion

11:45-12:20

12:30-1:20

1:30-3:30

3:30-3:45

3:45-4:45

4:45-5:30

7:00

9:00

Discussion

Lunch

PANEL III: KOREAN CHRISTIANITY IN SOCIO-POLITICAL
CONTEXT:

Chairperson: Minza Kim Boo

West Virginia University

1. "The Triumph of the Propaganda: A Critical Inquiry into 'Koreamzed
Democracy' under the Park Regime"

Jae Hyun Nam

Korean Methodist Church of Mansfield

2. "The 'Adjustment' of Korean Christians to the Political Oppression"

Myong Gul Son
United Methodist Church

3. "Minjung Theology and Praxis"

Chang-Won Suh

Union Theological Seminary

4. "Theological Reflections on Unification of Korea"

Keun Soo Hong
Boston University

Break

Discussion

Special Presentation

"The Task for the Future of Korean Theology"

Jong Sung Rhee

Presbyterian Theological Seminary
of Korea

Banquet:

"CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF KOREAN CHRISTIANITY"
Convenor: Sung Koog Hahm

Slide Presentation:

"Early Beginnings of Christianity in Korea"

Samuel H. Moffett
Princeton Theological Seminary

Special Reception

SATURDAY, MAY 26

7:15-7:45 Morning Devotion

Byong Suh Kim, Liturgist
Woodmere-Lawrence United Methodist
Church

Dok Hyun Cho, Meditation
Korean Central Church of New York

8:00-8:50

Breakfast

9:00-11:00

PANEL IV: KOREAN CHURCH AND THEOLOGY

11:00-11:15

11:15-12:15

12:30-1:30

1:35-2:40

2:40-3:00

3:00

Chairperson: Sang Hyun Lee

Princeton Theological Seminary

1 "The Centenary of Korean Protestant Church: Its Theological
Retrospect and Prospect"

Ko Kvvang Kim

Korean United Methodist Church of
Santa Clara Valley

2 "Taoism and Jesus Phenomenon"

Nosoon Kwak

Sharon United Methodist Church
of Chicago

Sang Eui Kira

First Korean Presbyterian Church xjf
•Minnesota-

4. "The Markan Community and the Johannine Community"
Joong Suk Suh

Korean Church of New Jersey

Break

Discussion

Lunch

Business Meeting

Closing Meditation Stephen Moon

and Prayer Capitol Union Presbyterian Church

for Koreans

Adjournment

Officers of the Association
Advisors: Chai Choon Kim, Shungnak L. Kim
Board of Directors: Minza Kim Boo, Wan Sang Han, Hwasoo Lee, Kyung Suk Soh
Executive Officers: Sung Koog Hahm. President; Steven Rhew. Vice-President;
Sookja Paik Kim, Treasurer; Inn Sook Lee, General Secretary

Local Steering Committee

Seung Mo Park (devotion), Tai Young Yoo (transportation) Hyo Sup Choi,
Choong Shik Ahn, Hwain Chang Lee, Seung Woon Lee, Sung Kook Shin, Syngman Rhee,
Choon Whe Koo, Haesun Rhee, Byong Dae Hahm, Hae Jong Kim, Wha Sae Park Kim,
Chung Wha Ahn, Ben Q. Limb, Hai Won Rhim, Soon Man Rhim, Woo Suk Yang,
Chung Soon Kim, Hong Choon Kim, Hyong Kim Han, Myong Gul Son, Sang Hyun Lee

and Won Kyu Lee

“A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF KOREAN MISSIONS, 1884-1984

An Example of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in Mission

196th GENERAL ASSEMBLY (1984)
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.)

Friday, June 1, 1984, 8:00 P.M.

Phoenix, Arizona

Historical Highlights of the Korean Church and Korea

September 20, 1884

October, 1889
October 20, 1892

September 8, 1898

May 15, 1901

1907

1910

1912

1919

September 19, 1938

September 20, 1938

April 19, 1940

1945

1948

March 28, 1949

1950-1953
May 24, 1951

April 29, 1953

September 24, 1958

September 30, 1960

April 29, 1969

• First Protestant missionary from the former
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
arrives in Korea.

• First missionary from the Australian Presbyterian
Church arrives in Korea.

• First missionary from the former Presbyterian Church
in the United States arrives in Korea.

• First missionary from Canadian Presbyterian Church
arrives in Korea.

• Presbyterian Theological Seminary founded in
Pyengyang.

• First Presbytery formed in Korea.

• Korea annexed by Japan.

• General Assembly formed in Korea.

• Independence movement against the Japanese started.

• General Assembly forced by Japanese government to
worship at Shinto shrine.

• Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Pyengyang
closed.

• Han Kuk Theological Seminary founded in Seoul.

• Korea liberated from Japan following World War II.

• Korean government established.

• Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Pyengyang is
reestablished in Seoul.

• Korean War

• Karye-pah withdrew from the church and formed a new
denomination.

• Presbyterian Church of the Republic of Korea is
formed after the General Assembly is divided.

• Presbyterian Church reorganized as two separate
denominations.

• Church withdrew membership from World Council of
Churches.

• Church rejoined World Council of Churches.

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A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF KOREAN MISSIONS, 1884-1984

An Example of the Presbyterian Church in Mission

Introduction The Rev. Syngman Rhee HT

Prelude: Opening Signal The Rev. Philip Park, Narrator

Flower Crown Dance

(Court Dance) Korean Classical Music and Dance Company (KCMDC)

“The Beginning of Missions” Dr. Horace G. Underwood

(Descendant of first missionary family)

Drum Dance (Noncourt Ritual Dance) KCMDC

Present “Statistical Report on Missions” The Rev. Insik Kim

Gang Gang Sul Lae (Folk Dance) KCMDC

“The Formation of the Presbyterian Church in Korea” Dr. Samuel Moffett

Pansori: The Passion from “A Story of Jesus” Mr. Dong Jin Park

Fan Dance (Derivative Modern Dance) KCMDC

“The Growth of the Korean Presbyterian Church” Mrs. Grace Kim

(A member of the National Korean Presbyterian Council)

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Korean Choir

Farmer’s Dance

Welcome to Koreans

Pansori. The Resurrection from “A

Prayers

“The 23rd Psalm” in Music

Benediction

KCMDC

Moderator of the 1 96th

General Assembly (1984)

Story of Jesus” Mr. Dong Jin Park

Second Generation Korean American Youth

Composer, Mr. Uoon Young La

Singer, Ms. Woo Chin Lee

Chairperson of National Presbyterian Council

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Program Notes
Introduction

The traditional Korean dance and music being presented tonight dramatize and celebrate
the historical background of Presbyterian mission in Korea. Traditional Korean dance may
be classified into four main genres: court dance, noncourt ritual dance, folk dance, and
modern derivative dance. Another distinction can be made between the restrained and

prescriptive classical tradition and the freer folk tradition.

The pansori is a vocal genre that is the most unique and dramatic form of music in Korea.
The term pansori is derived from pan (gathering place) and sori (singing). Its tradition was
developed in the southern part of Korea by professional folk musicians during the eigh-
teenth century. At the beginning of this century, a new version of the pflAisor/ surfaced.
Known as changguk (sung drama), it tended to incorporate aspects of a Western operatic
style. Korean Christians have adopted pansori to communicate the gospel in an indigenous

f°A pansori performance is presented by two musicians, a solo singer, and a puk (drum
player). When performing a long dramatic passage, the pansori singer employs son
(singing), aniri (speech), and pallim (dramatic action). The drummer keeps basic rhythmic
cycles and sometimes gives the singer chuimsae (shouts of encouragement) such as choci
(nice) or kurochi (right on).

Flower Crown Dance

The Flower Crown Dance is one of four court dances developed as early as 37 B.C. It was
performed until the end of the Yi Dynasty in 1910. This dance is a court banq^^ance .
which dancers gracefully perform with flower crowns on their heads. They are accompanied
in their dance by a tarying and kukkary rhythm.

When missionaries from the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and
the Presbyterian Church in the United States arrived in Korea respectively in 1884 and
1892 the Flower Crown Dance was already an integral part of the culture. At the time
their arrival, the missionaries entered a kingdom of absolute monarchs and it was in this
setting that the Flower Crown Dance was performed.

Drum Dance

The Drum Dance is a dance in which a woman wrestles with her own agony as she seeks
to become a nun. She explores her anguish through this dance. The drums that are played

are ordinarily used for prayer. f

When Christian missionaries arrived in Korea, they were faced Wlth cha‘ *"ge °
living within a culture and society with a long history and tradition ot Buddhism and

Confucianism.

Gang Gang Sul Lae

Gang Gang Sul Lae depicts the nineteenth-century invasion, control and eventual [an-
nexation of Korea by Japan. This dance was originally developed by Admiral Soon Shin
Lee during the first invasion of Korea by Japan in the sixteenth century

Gang Gang Sul Lae provides the context in which one may view the &rowtb e
Korean Christian community. It was under such early military invasion and political op-
pression that the early church began to grow.

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Pansori

P0/7.SO/7 |S patter ncti after the Passion of Jesus. It is based on the text “A Story of Jesus.”

ritten by the Christian novelist Mr. Tae Ik Choo, the story is divided into four parts.

The music for the entire story was composed by Mr. Dong Jin Park, a national human
treasure of the Republic of Korea.

Pansori reflects not only the Passion of Jesus but it also reflects the struggle of Christiani-
ty in Korea during the years of oppression by Japan.

Fan Dance

Since the 1940s, the Fan Dance has represented a creative effort in the field of Korean
dance. Because traditional models play a major role, these dances are often regarded as a
lorm of “choreographic syncretism.” The Fan Dance is one of these derivative dances It is
included in almost every dance concert in Korea today.

, Th^an,?“Ce;‘n its own way’ depicts the new era of liberation for Korea which fol-
lowed World War II.

Farmer’s Dance

The Farmer’s Dance, or nongak, is the most widely known and appreciated of all dances
It is the oldest known form of dancing in Korea. The boisterous music, recorded at ancient
seasonal sacrifices and festivals, is probably the prototype of the present nongak.

Many hamlets still have their own communal nongak group. These groups frequently
perform at various celebrations and major agricultural events.

As a celebration, the Farmer’s Dance is an appropriate way of recognizing the phenome-
?ee?rkWth Chmhamty in Korea. The seed that was planted by the early missionaries in
1884 has yielded a rich harvest. Today, there are over 5 million Korean Presbyterians This
number represents 1 1 percent of the total population of Korea.

The 23rd Psalm

bee" PUt '° mUSIC by comP°ser Mr. Uoon Young La. Although the
cuhure f he W 1S ev,dem' lhe sonS refl“'s a strong sense of Korean identify and

ChwfhollMhfTai5, ren!!"8 Tf"*0" of ^ struS8le “d growth of the Korean Christian

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The Korean Pansori

The Lord's Suffering
Jesus was crucified for all people.

His mother, Mary; his aunt Mary, the wife of Clopas; and Mary Magdalene
were at the foot of the cross during his crucifixion.

When Jesus saw his mother, he pointed to John standing nearby and said,
“Mother, look, from now on he is your son."

Jesus grew thirsty.

“1 thirst! I’m thirsty!” he cried. And he said, “ Eli; eli, lama sabacthani?

Eli, eli, lama sabacthani ?"“0 God, why have you forsaken me?”

Then, he said sadly, “It is all accomplished!” He closed his eyes and
breathed his last breath.

It was the ninth hour. The sun lost its light and all the earth was
darkened.

The veil of the Temple was torn. The mountains and rivers shook and all was
noise and confusion.

The crowd which had gathered began to riot. They said to each other,

“ Aigo\ (O God!)”

They said that this Jesus, who was crucified, was truly the Son of God!

All of them lamented and grieved.

The Sound of the Resurrection

Uhlssignoonah ! Juhlssigoonah! Amazing! Wonderful!

Uhlssignoonah! Juhlssigoonah! Fantastic!

Uhlssignoonah ! Juhlssigoonah ! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hey! All you people! Listen! Hear me, everyone!

Has there ever been such a thing? Our Lord is Risen!!!

Amazing! Wonderful! From there upon that Cross. .
crucified, sword-pierced. Our Lord is alive from the dead!

That huge door-stone has been rolled away. He has come out alive from
the grave!

Like the rising sun in the East as it brings daylight after deepest night,
like the warm spring season returning over the earth, hard-frozen by bitter
cold winds;

like new leaves and new shoots budding out on dry leafless branches—

Our Lord is alive again!

Amazing! Wonderful! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

People of the earth, grieve not!

After weeping, joy comes! After travail, glory!

World dreams are brief but there is eternity.

Resurrection coming after death is a happy event for all humankind.
Amazing! Wonderful!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The Lord of Glory!

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The Korean Pansori

The Lord’s Suffering
Jesus was crucified for all people.

His mother, Mary; his aunt Mary, the wife of Clopas; and Mary Magdalene
were at the foot of the cross during his crucifixion.

When Jesus saw his mother, he pointed to John standing nearby and said,
“Mother, look, from now on he is your son."

Jesus grew thirsty.

“I thirst! I’m thirsty!" he cried. And he said, “Eli, eli, lama sabacthani?

Eli, eli, lama sabacthani ?"“0 God, why have you forsaken me?”

Then, he said sadly, “It is all accomplished!” He closed his eyes and
breathed his last breath.

It was the ninth hour. The sun lost its light and all the earth was
darkened.

The veil of the Temple was torn. The mountains and rivers shook and all was
noise and confusion.

The crowd which had gathered began to riot. They said to each other,

“Aigo! (OGod!)”

They said that this Jesus, who was crucified, was truly the Son of God!

All of them lamented and grieved.

The Sound of the Resurrection

Uhlssignoonah! Juhlssigoonah! Amazing! Wonderful!

Uhlssignoonah! Juhlssigoonah! Fantastic!

Uhlssignoonah! Juhlssigoonah /Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hey! All you people! Listen! Hear me, everyone!

Has there ever been such a thing? Our Lord is Risen!!!

Amazing! Wonderful! From there upon that Cross. . .
crucified, sword-pierced. Our Lord is alive from the dead!

That huge door-stone has been rolled away. He has cpme out alive from
the grave!

Like the rising sun in the East as it brings daylight after deepest night;
like the warm spring season returning over the earth, hard-frozen by bitter
cold winds;

like new leaves and new shoots budding out on dry leafless branches—

Our Lord is alive again!

Amazing! Wonderful! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

People of the earth, grieve not!

After weeping, joy comes! After travail, glory!

World dreams are brief but there is eternity.

Resurrection coming after death is a happy event for all humankind.
Amazing! Wonderful!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The Lord of Glory!

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THE PHOENIX ASSEMBLY:
Boesak, Barmen and Breakfasts

Allan Boesak Moves Assembly
With Exposition of Revelation

Morning worship at the Phoenix Gen-
eral Assembly featured daily Bible
studies on the Book of Revelation by Al-
len Boesak, Reformed church leader in
South Africa and president of the World
Alliance of Reformed Churches. The
studies are to be published by West-
minster Press.

He began his expositions on Wednes-
day, May 30, with Revelation 1:1-8. He
defined prophecy as a "contradiction of
the present because it has a vision of the
future. [It] permits people to see visions
of truth and justice even in the midst of
persecution."

The greeting in vv. 4-7 "is not a simple
liturgical formula but a reminder of
who the Lord is and a reminder of who
Caesar is. The Eternal One who was and
is and is to come, is the faithful Lord."

It is the faithful Lord who sustains the
people in South Africa who are now "liv-
ing under plastic provided by the
churches, under the rain and wind, whose
plastic sheets will be taken away by the
police tomorrow because they do not
have permission to live there, who will be
removed tomorrow because they do not
have passbooks, who will be arrested to-
day because their only crime is that they
live with their husbands."

Boesak reminded commissioners that
"the broken body of Christ was not
broken once on the cross, but is being
broken every day where people suffer
and die for the world."

IN HIS SECOND SERMON on Thurs
day, Boesak turned to Revelation 5, the
opening of the scroll.

In this chapter, John is reminding the
Church of the limitations of Caesar's
power, for not even Caesar could open
the scroll that gives meaning to life. But
the scroll must be opened so that the
Church will see how much we belong to
the people of this world, that "we are not
to struggle for the survival of the
Church, but for the life of the world."
The scroll must be opened so all people
may see the miseries of the world and
hear the cries of those who say, "How
long?"

If the scroll is not open the world will
not hear the heartbeat of Christ. If the
Church does not learn to cry, "How
long?" it will never be able to say,
"Come, Lord Jesus."

JUNE 25, 1984

It is in suffering that Jesus is King.
The Lamb is not the sweet, gentle lamb
familiar to many. He is the "tough little
lamb that wears a bell — the leader of
the pack." The Lamb is Jesus rising from
the dead, “rebelling against this final
enemy and becoming the Lamb who will
lead his Church."

The music at Thursday's service was
provided by the Indian Sign Language
Choir of Parker Valley Presbyterian
Church, Parker, Ariz., directed by Mil-
dred Laffoon. They provided a balance to
the music of the Assembly, wWh was
generally rather formal, by signing to the
singing of the director, "How Great Thou
Art" and Malotte’s version of the Lord's
Prayer.

THE NEXT DAY, KjtIDAY, Boesak
expounded Revelation 12, the vision of
woman with child. \

The child is the Redeeming Christ, the
defenseless mother is the Crnirch, the
dragon is the force of evil. “TheNdragon
cannot stand since it represents a life of
fear, untruth, slavery, a living death or a
deathly living," the preacher said. \

Sharing from his own life, Boesak told
of the moment when he was flying from
Nairobi to Johannesburg and read that
documents had been found outlining the
planned assassinations of himself and
Bishop Desmond Tutu. Both are leaders
in the fight for justice in South Africa.

He told of his feeling of disbelief. As he
wrestled with it, he recalled, “I began to
understand that God would give me the
courage to continue in the struggle that I
know is right. I also realized that there is
no protection in being right."

REVELATION 13 was the basis for
Saturday’s sermon by this eloquent
preacher. It describes the beast from the
earth and the beast from the sea.

The beast from the earth is oppressive
authority. "But the expectation of au-
thority is never an expectation of fear,
for when there is fear, all authority is
lost. Authority is the servant of God, and
within the community of the faithful,
everybody exists to serve everybody
else."

The work of the second beast is de-
humanization. "The beast looks like the
lamb that was slain, but its voice is the
voice of the dragon."

THERE WAS no Bible study on
Sunday because of the ecumenical service
at 10 a.m. and none on Monday because of
the General Assembly Breakfast and the
commissioning service at the opening of
the business session that day.

On Tuesday, June 6, Boesak developed
the vision of the New Jerusalem in Reve-
lation 21-22.

His emphasis was on the destruction of
the earth. In the future, the earth should
be patterned as a place "where people
shall be people and there will be room for
them to be people." Real power is not
power that rules over someone, but
power that serves others. When people
permit the raping and destroying of the
earth, “we are doing it to ourselves." The
result of a new earth and a new heaven
will be a new world “in which God will
feel at home again.”

BOESAK’S SERMON on the final day
of the Assembly was based on Isaiah 40.
In ringing tones, he contrasted "All flesh
is grass" with "But the word of the
Living One endures forever."

“Everyone can affirm the truth of the
statement, ‘all flesh is grass,’ but it is
especially true of the weak, the poor, the
powerless, the defenseless of this world."

The mighty of the world, Boesak
warned, "must learn that they cannot
play the part of gods They kill and
murder, and they call it peace. They ter-
rorize the innocent and defenseless and
call it justice. They challenge the Living
One, and for a while, we bow down and
worship them, but we must remember
God’s word that ‘all flesh is grass.”'

Boesak concluded his series of sermons
with these words to the commissioners:
Let us not look into the world and be
intimidated by the forces of evil. Let us
not be discouraged by our own sinfulness,
weakness, and inability to do what is
right. Let us, rather, keep our eyes on
Jesus Christ the Living One who has died
and risen for our sake."

Commissioners gave Boesak a standing
ovation at the end of the service. He was
warmly received throughout the Assem-
bly, and on one morning, tribute was paid
to his wife, Dorothy, who was with him,
for her part in his witness in his troubled
land.

AT A NEWS CONFERENCE on Mon
day, Boesak gave four broad guidelines
for Americans who want to take action
against apartheid in South Africa:

1. Seek alternative sources of informa-
tion on the situation there.

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2. pffake apartheid "a priority concern
wherevd* you are."

3. thurch action must go beyond sol-
emn pronouncements.

4. Establish relationships with organi-
zations in South Africa engaged in the
struggle against apartheid.

‘‘Without economic, political and diplo-
matic pressures on South Africa, we can-
not help the South African government
make the changes that are necessary," he
told the reporters. ‘‘That pressure is the
only alternative to violent change in
South Africa."

Barmen, Zwingli and the
Korea Celebration

There were three special celebrations
at the Phoenix Assembly: the 50th anni
versary of the Declaration of Barmen, the
500th anniversary of the birth of Ulrich
Zwingli and the 100th anniversary of
mission work in Korea.

Each was significant in its own right,
but the address by Arnold Come on Bar-
men elicited the most comment and was
ordered, by motion in a business session,
to be spread upon the minutes of the As-
sembly.

ARNOLD COME, president emeritus
of San Francisco Theological Seminary,
was on the United Presbyterian commit-
tee which voted to include the Barmen
Declaration in the 1967 Book of Confes-
sions. It is also a part of the Book of Con-
fessions of the reunited church.

The Barmen Declaration was drafted in
May 1934 by Reformed theologians, in-
cluding Karl Barth, and revised and
signed by representatives of 18 German
Protestant church bodies opposed to the
policies of the Nazi regime.

Come brought the Declaration's central
theme of the Lordship of Christ home to
the General Assembly at the beginning of
his address, when he said:

"Fifty years ago, the Christians of a
certain land were faced with a terrifying
dilemma: the federal government and its
powerful leader had seized control of
their church government and had dic-
tated a new definition of their faith. The
dire results were becoming clear: (1) the
ultimate authority in their lives was no
longer the free word of God incarnate in
Jesus Christ, but was the dictates of the
leader of the state; (2) the Christian
people of God was identified with the na-
tional culture, with the national ethnic
strain, and with the historical destiny of
that one nation. All other cultures, ethnic
groups and their political entities were
branded as pagan, demonic, even as sub-
human and worthy only for extermina-
tion; (3) the Christian service of God was
commandeered and made identical with
the glorification of that state and its
leader.

"If these things were happening today
in the United States of America, what ac-
tion would you be taking in this General

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Assembly, the highest court of the Pres-
byterian Church? What would you do if
your government were trying to dictate
where and when and what your children
might pray, and by amending the Consti
tution and by the power of taxation, to
determine how you shall act in matters
reserved for the privacy of your Christian
conscience? What would you do if the
leader of your government were declar-
ing that the American way of life and
values are the truly Godly and Christian
way and values, and that other nations
and their governments are the instru-
ments of the devil? What would you do if
you were condemned as anti-Christian
when you raised your voice in criticism of
some of our American values and the
military exploits and armament policies
of our government? What would you do if
your government were arresting Chris-
tians who were giving sanctuary to refu-
gees from death squads in a neighboring
country? And what would you do if,
through the conversations heard here,
you made the startling discovery that the
majority of your fellow commissioners
were enthusiastic supporters of these
policies? And especially, what would you
do if you found your own views outlawed
and you were subject to arrest and im-
prisonment without trial or legal re-
course?”

After reviewing what happened in Ger-
many and the effect of the Barmen Dec-
laration on the resistance movement
there, Come concluded by saying:

"We in the United States of America
never have faced and, God grant, never
shall face the kind of tyranny-beyond-law
and confusion-of-church-and-state that
the Confessing Church in Germany suf-
fered. But the forces of tyranny and
idolatry are at work in our society in
much more subtle and. therefore, even
more dangerous ways." He cited an
authority who, commenting on our fasci-
nation with the Hitler phenomenon,
asked the nagging question "whether we
in America would not, given an appro-
priate turn of circumstances, welcome
the kind of remedy that Hitler offered the
Germans.”

At the celebration of Barmen Leopold
Esselbach, an ecumenical delegate to the

Assembly from the Evangelical Church of
Germany, honored the clergy and laity
who had formulated the Declaration.

THE SPEAKER for the Zwingli cele-
bration after the Bible study on Friday
was Wallace M. Alston Jr!, pastor of
Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton.

N.J. He was joined by Eduard Wildbolz,
a representative of the Foundation of
Swiss Protestant Churches, in recalling
the life and influence of the Zurich re-
former.

"This proud peasant patriot, this com-
plicated, devout, stubborn and compas-
sionate man was called by the Lord to be
instrumental in reforming his church.
Zwingli believed that reformation will
always be the destiny of any church that
dares to be responsive to God," Alston
said.

Reviewing Zwingli’s life, Alston point-
ed out that while Zwingli was only 52
days younger than Martin Luther; and
"even though Luther called Zwingli the
Elijah of the Reformation. Zwingli con-
sistently resisted being called a Luther-
an, saying that he and Luther drank from
a common source. If Luther asked. 'How
shall I be saved?' Zwingli asked with Cal-
vin, ‘How shall the people, the city, the
nation be saved?’"

On New Year's Day 1519, Zwingli be-
came the preacher at the principal church
in Zurich and, according to Alston, set
out to preach through Matthew’s Gospel,
using Scripture to interpret Scripture.

He convinced his hearers that nothing is
binding upon the conscience unless com-
manded in the Bible.

"For Zwingli.” Alston said, "to believe
is to commune with Christ. The ‘real
presence’ of Christ is in the faith of the
believer rather than in the elements of
Communion. Zwingli believed in transub-
stantiation of life in the Christian commu-
nity. It is not the bread, but the church
gathered around the bread, that becomes
the body of Christ in communion.”

Alston pointed out Zwingli's “feet of
clay": his sexual improprieties and his
treatment of Anabaptists. He had some
of them drowned. "If Calvin had his F*
Servetus, Zwingli had his Anabaptists,”
he said. "But the Lord Jesus Christ had a
grip on Zwingli’s soul."

A facsimile of Zwingli’s Bible, the
Evangelical Bible of 1541, was presented
by William P. Thompson, interim co-
stated clerk, as a gift from the church in
Zurich. It was received for the Presby-
terian Church by Moderator Harriet
Nelson. Its inscription bears another
statement from Zwingli: "The Word of _
God must face opposition in order to
make manifest its power.”

SPEAKERS AT the celebration of 100
years of Presbyterian mission work in

THE PRESBYTERIAN OUTLOOK

Korea^ncluded In Shik Rim, moderator
of thF presbyterian Church of Korea,

ISamuel^loffett. son of the founder of the
first seminary in Korea, and Horace G.
Underwood, grandson of the first mis-
sionary directly appointed to Korea and
himself a missionary there.

Others who spoke were Young Chan
Ree, vice moderator of the Presbyterian
Church in the Republic of Korea, Mrs.
Grace Kim, a member of the National
Korean Council of the Presbyterian
Church (U.S.A.) and Insik Kim, a mem-
ber of the General Assembly staff in At-
lanta, Ga.

The story of Korean Christianity was
told through song and dance. The Korean
Classical Music and Dance Company of
Los Angeles performed court and folk
dances dating back to 37 B.C.

Dances ranged from formal court
dances to boisterous harvest celebrations
to a “drum dance.” The drums with which
the dancers accompanied themselves are
those ordinarily used in prayer.

Colorfully attired in blues, yellows,
pinks, reds and greens, dancers often
used fans and streamers to accent their
movements. Most dances were done in
groups ranging in size from three to 30.
Soloists emerged from and melted back
into the groups.

Dong Jin Park, a “national human
treasure" of the Republic of Korea, per-

formed a pansori that he had written.
Pansori is a form of song drama. It is
considered unique and the most dramatic
form of music in Korea.

Nearly 90 members of the combined
choirs of the 15 congregations of Hanmi
Presbytery sang two modern hymns by
Korean composers. "Hamni" means “Ko-
rean American." With the women
dressed in national costumes, the choir
looked and sounded beautiful.

Several gifts were presented from
Korean Presbyterians to the moderator
of the 196th General Assembly, Harriet
Nelson. Among them was a portrait of
Jesus composed of more than 845,000
words of the New Testament. The work
took more than four years to complete.
The artist, Gwang Hyuk Rhee, is a Pres-
byterian elder from Seoul, Korea, and a
refugee from North Korea.

Insik Kim reported to the Assembly
that the Presbyterians in Korea have al-
most met their goal of adding 5,000
churches and 1.5 million Presbyterians by
the centennial year. He also noted that
the Presbyterian Church of Korea now
has 75 missionaries in 25 other countries,
including the United States, and that
there are now at least 230 Korean-
American congregations that are mem-
bers of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

\ Moffett said that there are now five mil-
lion Presbyterians in Korea.

Nine Breakfasts, One Lunch

There were nine special breakfasts and
one special organization luncheon at the
Phoenix General Assembly, beginning
with the Outlook breakfast on Wednes-
day, May 30. We reported on that event
in our June 11 issue.

Thursday, at 6:45 a.m., the Racism/
Sexism breakfast was held at the Hilton.
Jennifer Henderson, head of a hunger
coalition in North Carolina, and Patricia
B. Reuss of Women’s Equity League in
Washington, D.C., were the speakers.

Henderson cited statistics to emphasize
the continued problems for racial/ethnics
and women in areas of employment,
health benefits and infant mortality. "We
still label people for their class, their race
and their sex," she said.

Each speaker spoke of the need to in-
fluence legislators in rectifying these con-
ditions.

COMMISSIONERS had to choose from
among three breakfasts on Friday morn-
ing: the Health, Education and Welfare
event, the Presbyterian Foundation, and
Presbyterians United for Biblical Con-
cerns. Each had headline speakers.

The HEW breakfast had expected to
have Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., but he
was on the campaign trail. However, the
JUNE 25, 1984

575 people at that gathering were not
disappointed when they heard Diane
Elder tell of the work she and her hus-
band are doing at Casa Oscar Romero, a
sanctuary home for refugees from El
Salvador.

Her husband, Jack, was arrested April
13 on three counts of transporting un-
documented Salvadoran refugees. He
could face up to six years in prison and a
$15,000 fine for taking three aliens to a
bus station in Harlingen, Texas.

Jack and one of their sons were in the
East, speaking about their work, when
Diane and their three other sons —
Jesse, 10, Devin, 5, and John, 7 months
— appeared at the HEW breakfast.

She told with simple eloquence of how
she, a nurse, and Jack, a school teacher,
had felt called to help refugees in 1980,
first in their home and then at the
Romero Center. Harboring refugees and
hearing their stories forced her to won-
der: "Is it that God only chooses people
from Central America to bear the bur-
den?" Failure to respond, she said, would
mean that she valued the life of Central
Americans less than those of herself and
her family.

Persons attending this breakfast con-
tributed more than $2,000 to the Rio

Grande Defense Fund which will aid in
legal defense efforts for Jack Elder. His
trial is scheduled for August.

AT THE FOUNDATION breakfast,
the speaker was John R. Dellenbeck, di-
rector of the Peace Corps under Presi-
dent Gerald Ford and a former member
of Congress. He is now president of the
Christian College Coalition in Washing-
ton, D.C.

He spoke on the stewardship of posses-
sions and at a news conference after the
breakfast expressed concern over the
famine that is developing in 24 countries
of Africa. He noted that there are nearly
5,300 Peace Corps volunteers on duty in
61 countries and that its budget is at an
all-time high. More than 85,000 people
have served in the Peace Corps.

C. Everett Koop, surgeon general of
the United States, was speaker at the
PUBC breakfast attended by 250 people.
Koop is an elder from Philadelphia and
attends Fourth Presbyterian Church in
Washington. The breakfast was spon-
sored jointly by PUBC and the Covenant
Fellowship of Presbyterians.

Koop addressed the issue of abortion,
infanticide and euthanasia.

U.S. law, he said, no longer regards
human life as sacred. “After a conceitful,
conspiratorial collusion, the Supreme
Court made abortion the law of the land"
and “removed personhood from the fe-
tus," Koop charged.

Roe vs. Wade led directly to infanti-
cide, Koop alleged. “The fetus had no
protection so the handicapped new-
born was the next target." There is “a
certain domino effect: abortion, infanti-
cide, euthanasia," Koop again charged.
“The first domino that fell was abortion,
which fell with a crash infanticide fell
silently euthanasia has been struck
and is falling."

"I tremble for this country, for God
must judge this nation for 17 million —
all legal — since 1973," he stated. “God
calls us to protect the weak and defense-
less," Koop said. "Can you think of any-
thing more defenseless than a developing
baby?”

He cited statistics showing that by the
year 2005 there will be 50 million Ameri-
cans over the age of 65; 25 million of
these will be over 75. This age group will
be the largest, children the next largest
and the working age group the smallest.
"Can the middle-age group foot the bill
for the old and the children? Will they
give up the children? Will they give up
the old people?" Koop asked.

“I am pessimistic about it. Let the
church prepare for that day now and not
be caught in an unbiblical, indefensible
position as Christians that they were
when abortion overtook us in 1973," he
emphasized.

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THE PEACE FELLOWSHIP breakfast
on Saturday featured the Irish wit of
Betty Williams Perkins, co-winner of the
1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in
Ireland seeking to reconcile Protestants
and Roman Catholics and care for the
children who are the victims of the fight-
ing there.

Mrs. Perkins has married an American
and now lives in Ponte Vedra Beach,
Fla., and is a member of the Fort Caro-
line Presbyterian Church where Herbert
Meza, longtime Presbyterian peace acti-
vist, is pastor. She is executive director
of the Jacksonville Citizens Against the
Death Penalty.

At the Peace Breakfast, she related
with emotion a story about how she be-
came interested in working for peace.
She saw three Belfast children killed on
the street when the driver of a military
vehicle was shot and the vehicle went out
of control. After that, Mrs. Perkins said,
"I became violently anti-violent because
we must not allow children to die. We
allow them to die in the world of hunger,
too, and that is wrong. Coupled with our
work for peace must be work for justice.”

She added, “When they gave me the
Nobel Peace Prize, I wondered why we
need prizes when we are fighting for
what is right. But now I know why. A
Nobel Peace Prize opens doors and God
wanted the doors unlocked. As an Irish
housewife, I could not have an audience
with the pope or with news media or be
speaking at this breakfast."

With a lot of emotion, she added.
"Northern Ireland has a problem for
every solution — unemployment, bigotry,
hatred, mistrust. But when it hurts the
children, we must become concerned.
Non-violence is truly the weapon of the
strong, not the weak."

Some of the longtime leaders of the
peace movement in the Presbyterian
Church were on the platform and in-
cluded Ralph Mould, who outlined the
long history of the movement which be-
gan in 1944 during World War II. The
audience sang Happy Birthday as he lit a
cake and emphasized, "Life begins at 40
for this organization."

Also at this breakfast, the Peace Fel-
lowship presented its annual Peaceseeker
Award to Southside Presbyterian
Church, Tucson, Ariz. This church gave
the first sanctuary to Salvadoran refu-
gees, a movement that has spread
throughout the United States. "What
they did was dangerous, illegal, improp-
er, imprudent and completely Christian,"
said Jeanne Welles in presenting the
award.

John Fife, pastor, and Susan Parrott,
clerk of the session, accepted the award
on behalf of the congregation. Many
members of the congregation were pres-
ent on this occasion.

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Saturday noon, there was the luncheon
of Presbyterians for Lesbian/Gay Con-
cerns. The speaker was the Episcopalian
preist and author, Malcolm Boyd, who
publicly acknowledged his own homo-
sexuality in 1979 and spoke of what it
meant to him to "come out." Harriet
Nelson, moderator of the General Assem-
bly, attended the luncheon and spoke
briefly. "As you know,” she said, "we are
in a church which is in the process of
learning what it means to grow and be
faithful."

ALL THE OTHER BREAKFASTS

were at 6:45 a.m.. but the more leisurely
Sunday schedule allowed the Women’s
Breakfast to be held at 8 a.m. More than
500 attended.

Those gathered heard advocates of eco-
nomic justice for youth, the elderly,
Native Americans and undocumented
workers. The speakers were Sara Brown,
a social worker with Planned Parenthood:
Diane Dahlbert, a resident of West Sun
City, Ariz.; Alice Paul, a professor at the
University of Arizona who spoke on Na-
tive Americans: and Ruth Martinez of
Roswell. N.M., who shared the concerns
of undocumented workers.

Ballet Folklorico of Friendly House in
Phoenix performed native dances of
Mexico at the beginning of the program.
The breakfast was sponsored by the
seven women's constituencies of the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): Council of
Women and the Church, United Presby-
terian Women, Committee on Women's
Concerns, Women of the Church Commit-
tee, Third World Women’s Coordinating
Committee; Committee on Racial Ethnic
Women, and Women Employed by the
Church.

A CAPACITY CROWD filled the Hil-
ton ballroom for the General Assembly
Breakfast on Monday, June 4. The speak-
er was Lois Wilson, a Canadian minister

and a president of the World Council of
Churches.

She began by saying that the early
hour was “the Protestant ethic gone
wild," and mentioned a T-shirt she saw:
“Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist
Society." She then developed her address
around the theme of storytelling: “What
story will you be telling in the Presby-
terian Church (U.S.A.) over the next few
years?” She cited four areas in which the
church is called to tell old stories in new
ways.

Before she got into that, she recog-
nized what was preoccupying the Asem-
bly by saying, “Who is going to be the
next stated clerk may be important to
you, but it is not so earth-shaking for the
rest of us." She went on to say, “I hope
you will not be so preoccupied with your
own internal functions that you will not
be able to deal with the ecumenical agen-
da which confronts us.”

Her four areas of concern for telling
the old story were ecology, poverty,
technology and inclusiveness.

Early in her remarks, Lois Wilson
spoke of the reunited Presbyterian
Church as being in the birth-pangs and
not yet born. Later, she referred to the
image again when she said that "forced
feeding leads to burping,” an appropriate
comment from a mother of four.

The breakfast began with four choral
selections in English and the Navaho
language from a Navaho choir made up of
members of seven Presbyterian congre-
gations in Arizona and directed by Alma
Wilson. Former Moderator Randolph
Taylor presided at the event and Oscar
McCloud, director of the Program Agen-
cy and a member of the executive com-
mittee of the WCC, introduced the
speaker. □

/ believe in the forgiveness of sins and
the redemption of ignorance.

- ADLAI STEVENSON

THE PRESBYTERIAN OUTLOOK

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Mission, Unity Committee report
has plan for dialogue with Lutherans

By Allen Kratz

The 196th General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.) expressed gratitude
and voted to “enter en-
thusiastically into a period of
further dialogue” with
Lutheran churches in the
United States.

The Assembly took the action
in considering a report from its
Mission and Unity Committee.

The commissioners also
voted to endorse the paper, “A
Statement of Policy Directions
in the '80s: Hispanic Ministries

Assembly Okays
new stated clerk
job description

By Theo Gill

A position description detail-
ing the duties of the stated clerk
and a new manual outlining
rules and procedures for future
Assemblies were adopted late
Tuesday night and early
Wednesday morning by the
196th General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Because of a backlog of
Assembly business, the position
description was not formally
adopted until ten hours after the
electidn of ithe Rev. James E.
Andrews , as-^the first stated
clerk of the year-old denomina-
tion. It calls for a stated clerk
gifted with ecclesiastical exper-
tise, administrative ability, and
communications skills, who will
“work in a collegial style within
and across agency, council, and
governing body lines.”

The Rev. A. M. Hart of Grace
Presbytery attempted to amend
the position description to pro-
hibit the clerk from issuing ad-
visory opinions on interpreta-
tion of the church's constitution.
"This practice puts the clerk in
a position, in effect, of enacting
legislation and making law,” he
said. “It is liable to abuse and is
being abused ... It is in-
tolerable, un-Presbyterian, and
abominable.”

The Rev. C. Kenneth Hall,
moderator of the General
Assembly Council, pointed out
the opinions of the clerk were
purely advisory, intended to
help those who were confused
by the language of the constitu-
tion, and carry no more weight
than the person who requested
it cares to give it.”

The amendment was
defeated.

One amendment to the
manual of the General
Assembly which was adopted
last night was a provision to
record the votes of Youth Ad-
visory Delegates and
Theological School Advisory
Delegates in the minutes of the
Assembly. The action
originated from a recommenda-
tion by the YADs and TSADs at
this year’s General Assembly.

SUNDAY

OFFERING

Scholarships for Native
American students were
benefited in the amount of
$3,300 through an offering
taken at Sunday’s camp
meeting in Bapchule,
Arizona.

in the Southwest United
States.”

In addition, the commis-
sioners approved making the
policy statement available in
both English and Spanish — a
move which will cost an addi-
tional $50,000.

In other action, the commis-
sioners:

• extended for one year the
mandate of a committee
created by the 195th General
Assembly (1983) to study the
relationship of the Presbyterian
Church (U.S.A.) to both the Na-
tional Council of Churches of
Christ in the U.S.A. and the
World Council of Churches;

• referred to the Ecumenical
Coordinating Team and the Ad-
visory Committee on
Ecumenical Relations two over-
tures on beginning conversa-
tions toward eventual union
with the Presbyterian Church of
Canada and the United Church
of Canada;

• voted to request the Carib-
bean and North American Area
Council of the World Alliance of
Reformed Churches "to begin

appropriate discussions with
Orthodox Churches in the
United States for the purpose of
initiating a Reformed-Orthodox
bilateral dialogue”;

• referred to its Special Com-
mittee on Relationships with
the National Council of
Churches and the World Council
of Churches an overture calling
for the World Council of Chur-'
ches “to act consistently” when
it criticizes the role of the U.S.
compared to the U.S.S.R. in in-
terventions beyond their;
borders.

Responding to four overtures
calling for yearly reports on the
National Council of Churches;
and the World Council of
Churches, and calling for the
World Council of Churches to
consult with Presbyterian
governing bodies before mak-
ing statements on “potentially
controversial” matters, the
commissioners urged
Presbyterian churches to set up
work groups to study existing
material about financial sup-
port.

Method for deciding synod,
presbytery boundaries OK’d

By Bill East

The 196th General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.) Monday approved the
method by which the Special
Committee on Presbytery and
Synod Boundaries will carry out
its duties.

The articles provide that the
judicatory bodies work on their
own boundaries but it also pro-
vided for the appointment of a
22-member committee to work
with the bodies and to oversee
the process. The committee in-
cludes 15 persons from the
former UPCUSA synods and
seven persons from the former
PCUS synods.

During the past year the com-
mittee has been working
simultaneously on developing a
plan of operation and consider-
ing revision of boundaries from
judicatories which already
were in the process of carrying
out the church’s mandate.

While the method of operation
approved by the General
Assembly labeled the work of

the special committee as
primarily consultative, it did,
however, make the committee
an official part of the boundary'
approval process.

It requires that each bound-
ary plan be submitted to the

special committee for approval
before it is forwarded to the
General Assembly for action.
The method is embraced in the
Articles of Agreement, but a
committee member said there
had been “some confusion”
during the past year and that
what is meant by “approval” is
now clear.

The method of operation also
clarifies that presbytery
boundary proposals must be
submitted to synods before go-
ing to the General Assembly.

In addition to approving the
method and process under
which the committee will work,
the General Assembly also ap-
proved a number of boundary
overtures which had been
presented to the committee
since its appointment.

Meneilly brings evangelism
report to GA commissioners

By Peggy Rounseville

“I think we heard the Spirit
say — not in a ‘still, small
voice,’ — ‘Now is the day of
salvation, now is the acceptable
time. Don’t keep putting me off
year after year ... I have been
known to spit lukewarm
Presbyterians right out of my
mouth.’ ” With these words
Robert H. Meneilly, chairper-
son of the Special Committee on
Evangelism and Church
Growth, presented the commit-
tee’s report to the General
Assembly.

Meneilly told commissioners
that on the topic of evangelism
"we must repent or we will
surely perish.” Most of the

“stirrings of the Spirit” on this
issue at past General
Assemblies were buried by
“political budgeting” and
‘ ‘ bureaucratic complexities, ”
Meneilly charged.

“Only when we ourselves
learn to share our experience
with Jesus Christ with others,
will we come to understand
what we believe ourselves ...
Our renewal, personal or
churchwide, comes out of
evangelism,” Meneilly said.

“Let us remember that every
one of the apostles except one
became evangelists, and that
one became a traitor,” Meneilly
warned.

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The drum dance marked Centennial Celebration of Korean Mission
held in Symphony Hall.

Assembly celebrates 100
years of Korean mission

By Peggy Rounseville
“I believe that God wants to
see 2.5 billion Asian people
evangelized in our time, and I
believe this is the mandate God
has given us today.”

The Rev. In Shik Rim,
moderator of the Presbyterian
Church of Korea, challenged
commissioners with this vision
Friday. Rim spoke during a
celebration of 100 years of
Presbyterian mission work in
Korea.

Rim believes it will take
"about 2,000” people to carry
out this task. “In this centennial
year,” Rim continued, “we
wish to train 2,000 able mission
personnel as an expression of
our gratitude to God and to
American churches to which we
are deeply indebted.”

Presbyterians in Korea “set a
goal of adding 5.000 churches
and 1,500,000 Presbyterians by

the centennial year, the Rev. in-
sik Kim reported to the
Assembly. “We are told that the
goal is almost met.”

Kim is a member of the
General Assembly staff in
Atlanta, Georgia.

The Presbyterian Church of
Korea now has 75 missionaries
in 25 other countries “including
the United States,” Kim added.
There are now at least 230
Korean American congrega-
tions that are members of the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

“People are born, disciples
are born again, but churches
have to be organized — blessed
are, the organizers,” Dr.
Samuel Moffett, son of the
founder of the first seminary in
Korea, told commissioners dur-
ing the celebration. There are
now 5,000,000 Presbyterians in
Korea, “more than in the
United States,” Moffett added.
(The membership of the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
is approximately 3,131,000. )

Dr. Horace G. Underwood,
grandson of the first missionary
directly appointed to Korea and
himself a mission worker in
Korea, came to the Assembly
especially for this event.

The story of Korean Chris-
tianity was also told through
song and dance. The Korean
Classical Music and Dance
Company, Los Angeles, Califor-
nia, performed court and folk
dances dating back to 37 B.C.

Dances ranged from formal
court dances to boisterous
harvest celebrations to a “drum
dance.” The drums with which
the dancers accompanied
themselves are those ordinarily

used in prayer. Colorfully at-
tired in blues, yellows, pinks,
reds and greens, dancers often
used fans and streamers to ac-
cent their movements. Most
dances were done in groups
ranging in size from three to 30.
Soloists emerged from and
melted back into the groups.

Mr. Dong Jin Park, a “na-
tional human treasure” of the
Republic of Korea, performed
pansori that he had written.
Pansori is a form of song
drama. It is considered the
most unique and dramatic form
of music in Korea.

Nearly 90 members of the
combined choirs of the 15 con-
gregations of Hanmi
Presbytery sang two modern
hymns by Korean composers.
“Hanmi” means “Korean
American.” With the women
dressed in national costume,
the choir both looked and sound-
ed beautiful.

Several gifts were presented
from Korean Presbyterians to
the moderator, Harriet Nelson.
Among them was a portrait of
Jesus composed of over 845,000
words of the New Testament.

Worship actions
aim to involve
youth and laity

By Theo Gill

Actions aimed at broadening
the number of youth and layper-
sons involved in the leadership
of worship were adopted Satur-
day by the General Assembly.

The Assembly acted to en-
courage congregations to
observe an annual Youth Sun-
day, in which young people up
to the age of 25 would be includ-
ed in the planning and leader-
ship of the services. Denomina-
tional agencies were directed to
include youth in the preparation
of special materials for future
celebrations of Youth Sunday.

In other actions on worship,
the Assembly voted to send to
the presbyteries for their en-
dorsement five proposed
amendments to the constitution
of the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.). Among these were
recommendations that
presbyteries be allowed to
name specific elders to ad-
minister the Lord’s Supper in
the absence of a minister, and
that deacons and elders not cur-
rently serving on the session of
a local church be allowed to
assist at the Lord’s Supper.

The Assembly took these ac-
tions on the recommendation of
its Committee on Faith and
Worship.

:CN OF FROFESSORS OF MISSIONS

/

Minutes of the Annual Meeting held at

Princeton/ New Jersey, June 21-22 , 1984

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

Papers were presented on the theme, "Third World Theologies
in the Teaching of Missions."

Dr. Myong Gul Son of the United Methodist Board of Global
Ministries addressed the theme from the perspective of
Minjung theology.

Dr. Andres Guerrero of the Catholic Theological Union in
Chicago addressed the theme from the perspective of Chicano
theology .

Dr. Lois McKinney of Wheaton Graduate School presented a paper
and conducted a workshop entitled "Praxis and Pedagogy" from
an evangelical perspective.

The meeting was called to order at 11 a.m. on Friday, June 22nd, 1984, by
the President of the Association, Dr. Lawrence Nemer.

The minutes of the 1983 Annual Meeting were accepted as circulated.

The financial report was presented by the treasurer and accepted. Current
balance is $321.86. The treasurer reminded members that dues are payable
annually.

New members were introduced and welcomed into the Association.

The nominating committee presented the following slate of officers for
1984-85: President: Lois McKinney. Vice-President: JBamuel Moffett.

Secretary/Treasurer: Alan Neely. These members were elected unanimously.
The outgoing officers were thanked for their terms of service.

It was moved by Richey Hogg that a joint committee be asked to review the
relationship between the APM and the ASM during the planning sessions for
next year's meetings. After discussion, it was moved by Gerald Anderson
that this motion be tabled. The motion to table was passed by a vote of

It was moved by John Webster that the Executive Committee bring to the
next meeting of the Association their specific recommendations for action
which the Association should take concerning the identity and future of
mission professors within the theological seminaries of the U.S.A. This

Topics for next year's annual meeting were invited from the floor.
Suggestions included: The Identity of the Missiologist; Missiology as an

Business Meeting

provoked a lengthy discussion, which necessitated an adjournment of the
meeting for lunch until 2:30 p.m. On reconvening, the motion was passed.

Academic Discipline; Methodologies of Study in Missiology; History of
Missiology; Inter-Disciplinary Approaches to Missiology.

9.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:00 p.m.

Association of Professors of Missions
Report of Annual Meeting, June 21-22, 1984

Our annual meeting was held at Princeton Theoloqical

. - w J. X

Seminary. The program was effectively presented and well received.
I am enclosing a copy of the munites and David L. Watson's
financial report.

Our next meeting will be at Trinity Evangelical Seminary,
Deerfield, Illinois, June 20-21, 1985. The theme will be "The
Future of Missiology: Tradition and Change." Presentations will
be made by Professors James A. Scherer of the Lutheran School of
Theology at Chicago; George W. Braswell, Jr., of Southeastern
Baptist, Wake Forest, N.C.; and Robert A. Evans, formerly of
Hartford Seminary Foundation and now Director of Plowshares

Jim Scherer will present a major paper on "The Future of
issiology as an Academic Discipline in Seminary Education" and
1 bring us up to date on developments since 1970.

George Braswell and Bob Evans will deal with mo

Full details of the program plus information regarding
accommodations will be included in the joint APM/ASM announcement
you will receive next Spring. Please make your plans to attend
the annual meeting on Thursday and Friday, June 20-21, 1985.

Also, will you please return to me at your earliest

Institute.

. 3 , ucoxynaLcu j. esponaants and plenary

ssions, will be a challenging and informative two days.

convenience your 1985 dues,
your reply. We are looking

our 1985 dues. You may use the following coupon for
We are looking forward to seeing you in June.

A a ail llCCi^

Secretary-Treasurer

Dear Fellow Presbyterians,

« . Jhe enclosed document is what came out of the meeting of concerned

resbyterians in Ht. View, California, there for the Presbyterians United for
Mission Advance meeting. It was the fifth in the

still-to-be-officially-organized Presbyterian Forum for Cross-Cultural Mission:
vanston, Princeton, Glendale, Mt. Alverno, Mountain View, CA. Coming up yet
is another on Nov 3 and 4 in Baltimore. Except for the one at Evanston, all
have been composed of mission related people who were in that particular area
tor some other purpose.

DrPconJL^6 s^ggeftlon of several, the enclosed overture was drawn up to be
P esented to church sessions and (hopefully) submitted to presbyteries all over
the country and thus to the General Assembly. We are also planning on
submitting it directly to the Design Committee through someone on it with whom
one of our group is acquainted.

f Pre^eding the meeting at which this overture was drawn up, a great deal
or discussion had gone into presenting a structural plan to the Design

°Dr^he*tSelf,-i Horton Taylor advised us, however, that we would be wise to
approach the problem in several stages, depending on what the Design Committee
J0Vering a"y Particular time. He suggested that right now their chief
concern was the basic philosophy of missionn abd advused us to state what we

furtherrpfino1?^6 ln the,f°rl" of an overtur‘’- We expect at later meetings to
rurther refine the original document drawn up at the Evanston meeting,

referring especially to the one-page condensation submitted by Dr Honeycutt
for presentation to the Design Committee. Honeycutt

u .iCnhiS-letter.iS mer?ly t0 keep a11 Participating parties up to date It
thp ifc being sent t0 others who have expressed interest and to the members of
the Missions Committee of the PUBC which called the original meeting.

above Hc?pin^U?-n9 bel„W ! 1jstLof those who were Present at each of the

s ta r in9S'f fell th?,ur9ent need for ong°ing discussions of this
sort ail over the country, and would urge each one of you to take advantage of

oss-cul u?a iCh may,brin! t09ether a number 0f P^sons conce^ed about
cross cultural mission outreach by our church.

Roster of those participating:

(,alled bV Roberta Winter, Missions Committee Chairman for the PUBC)

Harold kurtr ‘"x If Thompson Brow"' Br'Jce Gannaway, Matt McGowan,

RalDhd,nH E I E|lenn !°ffett’ Paul Plerson, Walt Shepherd. John Coventry Smith
Ralph and Roberta Winter, Dudley Woodberry.

Princeton (Called and chatted by Sam Moffett): G. Thompson Brown, Ken

OscaraMcNn,’,d' ^ ' Cllfton Kirkpatr^. Harold Kurtz,

O.car McCloud, (of the Presbyterians in Cross-Cultural Mission

organization), Sam and Eileen Moffett, Robert von Oeyen, Jr , Jim Phillips

Winter Scotchmen Charles West, Philip Wickeri, Ralph and Roberta ’

DeCamp^Peter ^pH fj>d b\ Murrav Russell): William Cunningham, Otto

Johnson ,p! n dd ’ llm Wage 1 gan z , Mellicent Honeycutt, John Huffner, Daryl
Roundy ’Esther " !CCUri|!’ Geor9e Munzin9- George Riddenhouse, Virginia
Woodberry, Don Wright RuSSeWT~t,a,'9uerite Schuster, Roberta Winter, Dudley

sj vwit

Mt. Alverno, CA (at the PUMA conference. Called by Roberta Winter): Mellicent

Honeycutt, Paul Pierson, Murray Russell, Roberta Winter, Dudley Woodberry.

Vie?T<CM11?d ?VFt0berta winter' chaired by Harold Kurtz): Murray S
Gralal ^ Elsh®lmer' RalPh 5 Roberta Winter, Morton Taylor. Ruth

r Sl Herod , RuthSchwicke , Harvey Hockestra, Neil Elsheimer, Doug

arrard, Janene Scovel, and ? Grubb (missionary of former UPUS church).

We would appreciate being also kept informed by all of you.

\

Hitchcock Presbyterian Church
6 Greenacres Avenue, Scarsdale, NY 10583

SUMMER

PREACHERS

AT

HITCHCOCK

1984

Worship-10:00 a.m.

Dear Hitchcock Family and Friends,

The summer of 1984 promises to be a
rich and full time in our life together.

We have created special programs that
will minister in unique ways to our
whole community. In addition. The
Session has decided to continue
Sunday morning worship at Hitchcock
for the summer.

A number of outstanding preachers
and Christian leaders have been invited
to challenge us from their own
experience to discover the joy, vitality
and responsibility of our faith. Mary
Jane Newman, our new Director of
Music has invited several artists to
complement our worship experience
musically. Together, a festival spirit will
be generated here at Hitchcock in the
summer of '84.

The Church School will also be open.
Two pre-seminary students will be
added to our staff for ten weeks to learn
about the church as well as share in the
ministry of teaching and pastoral care.
Many volunteers, the backbone of our
community, will be part of making our
life here from June 24 through
September 2 an exciting and deeply
valuable time.

Plan to join in — it won't be the same
without you!

Lovingly,

Bob MacLennan

September 2

The Reverend Donald I. Thiel

Don Thiel has been the Associate Pastor
here at Hitchcock since the fall of 1979. He
came to us from the Presbyterian Church in
Pennington, New Jersey. Prior to that he
pastored churches in Pittsburgh and in
Baltimore. He went to Maryville College in
Tennessee, received his Bachelor of Divinity
degree from Western Seminary in
Pittsburgh and his Master of Theology
degree from Princeton Theological
Seminary. Don's caring pastoring, his
enthusiasm for the youth and his love of
music and dramatics have endeared him to
this congregation.

Sermon: "Consecrated Labor"
Text: Proverbs 16:3

Worship-10:00 a.m.

August 26

June 24

&j||B . ■ | irSy^.

W&S? %\ ,'v ;;:‘> ■ ’ 'X 4v I

Dr. James Washington

Dr. James Walkup, Jr.

Currently Dr. Washington is a Professor of
Church History at Union Theological
Seminary in New York City. He was
educated at University of Tennessee,
Harvard University Divinity School, and
received his Ph.D. at Yale University. Dr.
Washington is a Baptist minister and was a
pastor prior to teaching. He has written
many books and articles and has lectured
widely. He has been very involved in the
boards and committees of the Baptist
Church.

Jim Walkup, familiar to most of the
Hitchcock family, has been the director of
the Counseling Center of Southern
Westchester since 1972. He was educated at
Davidson College, Princeton Theological
Seminary and Andover Newton
Theological Seminary. He is Vice President
of Foundation for Religion and Mental
Health, member of American Academy of
Psychotherapists, Clinical member of
American Association of Marriage and
Family Therapists and Diplomate,

American Association of Pastoral
Counselors.

Sermon:

Text:

Sermon: "Rekindling the Spirit"
Text: II Timothy 1:1-7

Worship-10:00 a.m.

Worship-10:00 a.m.

The Reverend Robert S. MacLennan

Bob MacLennan, a native Californian was
educated at Occidental College in Los
Angeles and Princeton Theological
Seminary. From his pastorate at the
Presbyterian Church in Stony Point, N.Y.,
then to Lincoln, Nebraska, he went to
Bonn, Germany where he pastored an
interdenominational church largely made
up of members of the diplomatic corps. At
his most recent pastorate, he was the
Teaching minister in Edina, Minnesota. Mr.
MacLennan is working on his thesis on the
subject of Early Christian Anti-Semitic
Literature for a Doctorate in Ancient
Studies. He has been Senior Pastor at
Hitchcock since September 1983 and has
enlivened this church with his humor, his
deep concern for people and his stimulating
sermons and Bible studies.

July 1 Sermon: " A New Basis for
Nationhood"

Text: Deuteronomy 8:11-20
July 8 Sermon: "A New Basis for
International Relations"

Text: Luke 22:24-27 (30)
Worship-10:00 a.m.

Dr. Mary Faith Carson

Mary Faith Carson comes to us as an elder,
a minister and a professor. She was the first
woman to earn her Ph.D. degree at
Princeton University. She also received
degrees from Salem College, Presbyterian
School of Christian Education in
Richmond, Union Theological Seminary in
Richmond. Since 1967, Dr. Carson has been
a professor of New Testament at Moravian
College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and is
chairman of the Department of Religion.
She is the author of "Praise God . . . Worship
Through the Years".

Aug. 12 Sermon: "We Have An Example"
Text: I Peter 2:21-25

Aug. 19 Sermon . "Shattered Expectations
— A Life Made Whole"

Text: Luke 7:36-50

July 1 and July 8

August 12 and August 19

Worship-10:00 a.m.

August 5

July 15

Dr. Diogenes Allen

Dr. Donald W. Shriver, Jr.

Dr. Allen was educated at University of
Kentucky Princeton University, Oxford
University and Vale University. He has been
a pastor of the Presbyterian Church,
Professor at York University in Toronto,
Canada, and is presently a Professor of
Philosophy at Princeton Theological
Seminary. He has authored many books
and articles for publication.

Dr. Shriver is presently President of the
Faculty at Union Theological Seminary in
New York City. Graduate of Davidson
College, Union Theological Seminary in
Virginia, Yale Divinity School and Harvard
University, he is an ordained Presbyterian
minister. Dr. Shriver has been a professor of
Religion at North Carolina State University,
Professor of Ethics and Society at Emory
University and professor of Urban Church
Ministry at Union Seminary in New York.
He has been active in many committees and
boards of presbytery, synod and General
Assembly as well as National and World
Council of Churches.

Sermon: "Reaching Out" Sermon: "The Road to Reconciliation"

Text: Luke 16:19-31 Text: Matthew 6: 9-15

II Corinthians 5:18

Worship-10:00 a.m.

Worship-10:00 a.m.

July 22

July 29

Dr. James I. McCord

After 24 years as President of Princeton
Theological Seminary, Dr. McCord retired
and went on to serve as Chancellor of
Post-Doctoral Center of Theological
Inquiry. A native Texan, he was Instructor
of Philosophy at University of Texas, Dean
and Professor of Systematic Theology at
Austin Presbyterian Seminary. Dr. McCord
has been serving the Church in its national
and international organizations, including
membership on the Executive Committee of
the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
since 1954. He now serves as President of
the United Board for Christian Higher
Education in Asia.

Dr. Samuel Hugh Moffett

Born in North Korea of missionary parents.
Dr. Moffett lived and went to Pyongyang
Foreign School. His further education
includes degrees from Wheaton College,
Princeton Theological Seminary, Vale
University, College of Chinese Studies,
Peking, Cambridge University, and
Columbia. He is an ordained Presbyterian
minister and has served churches in this
country. Dr. Moffett was a missionry to
China from 1947-1951 and to Korea from
1955-1981, where he taught in seminaries
and was in official positions. Presently he is
a Professor of Ecumenics and Mission at
Princeton Theological Seminary.

Sermon: "Prayer— Our Lifeline" Sermon: "Clay Pots"

Text: Luke 22:39-46 Text: II Corinthians 4:7

Scripture Reading II Corinthians 4:5-11 ^

£

Worship-10:00 a.m.

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The Presbyterian Layman, July /August 1984

100 Years of Missions

In Korea Celebrated

PHOENIX, 6-2-84 (PCN) — “I be-
lieve that God wants to see 2.5 billion
Asian people evangelized in our
time, and I believe this is the man-
date God has given us today.”

Rev In Shik Rim, moderator of
the Presbyterian Church of Korea,
challenged commissioners with this
vision. Rim spoke during a celebra-
tion of 100 years of Presbyterian
mission work in Korea

Rim believes it will take about

2.000 people to carry out this task.
“In this centennial year," Rim con-
tinued. "we wish to train 2,000 mis-
sion personnel as an expression of
our gratitude to God and to Ameri-
can churches to which we are deeply
indebted.”

Presbyterians in Korea "set a goal
of adding 5,000 churches and

1.500.000 Presbyterians by the cen-
tennial year, Rev Insik Kim report-
ed to the Assembly. "We are told
that the goal is almost met.” .Kim is
a member of the General Assembly
staff in Atlanta, GA

The Presbyterian Church of Korea
now has 75 missionaries in 25 other
countries "including the United
States,” Kim added. There are now
at least 230 Korean American con-
gregations that are members of the
Presbyterian Church ( USA ) .

"People are born, disciples are
born again, but churches have to be
organized — blessed are the organiz-
ers," Rev. Samuel Moffett, son of
the founder of lEe first seminary in
Korea, told the commissioners dur-
ing the celebration. There are now
5,000,000 Presbyterians in Korea,
"more than in the United States,”
Moffett added.

Rev Horace G. ; Underwood,
grandson roT~the first missionary
directly appointed to Korea and him-
self a missionary in Korea, came to
the Assembly especially for this
event.

“Our great desire is that the
Presbyterian Church of North Korea
will be able to come out once more

phony Hah Pho^niT X? Missio"s’ 1884-1984” presented on Friday evening, June 1. in Sym-
tion. ’ Z RCV Shlk R,m- moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Korea, spoke at the celebra-

above ground," Rev. Young Chan
Rhee, vice-moderator of the Presby-
terian Church in the Republic of
Korea, told commissioners "I be-
lieve North and South [Korea] will
be reunified and that the church
must play a vital role in that reuni-
fication,” Rhee said.

“Korean history is one of suffer-

ing, frequent invasions, and being
conquered by neighboring coun-
tries, Mrs. Grace Kim, a member
of the National Korean Presbyterian
Council of the Presbyterian Church
( USA) said. The Korean War, she re-
minded commissioners, drove many
thousands from their homes. “Many .
lost all possessions and loved ones’
They suffered great hardships as re-

fugees, but turning to God, wherever
they went they built churches
Their faith in God sustained them,”
Kim added.

The story of Korean Christianity
was also told through song and
dance. The Korean Classical Music
and Dance Company, Los Angeles,
CA, performed court and folk dances
dating back to37B.C.

What Wo uld You Do?

Anniversary of Barmen Declaration

U.S. Asked to Urge Korea
To Support Human Rights

PHOENIX, 5-31-84 (PCN) - Chris-
tian faith in the face of political
tyranny was celebrated as the 196th
General Assembly observed the fif-
tieth anniversary of the Theological
Declaration of Barmen.

The Declaration was drafted in
May, 1934, by theologian Karl Barth
and signed by 18 German Protestant
church bodies opposed to the policies
of the Nazi regime. It is included in
the confessional standards of the

those who gathered at the German
city of Barmen 50 years ago

"They confessed Jesus Christ as
Lord of the whole world, and of their
lives," Esselbach said. “Today the
Barmen Declaration confronts us
with the question: What are the
heresies and temptations of our
world, so that we may not fall into
them?”

Rev Arnold B. Come, past presi-
dent of San Francisco Seminary,

tion and by the power of taxation, to
determine how you shall act in mat-
ters reserved for the privacy of your
Christian conscience?”

"What would you do if the leader
of your government were declaring
that the American way of life and
values are the truly Godly and Chris-
tian ways and values, and that other
nations and their governments are
the instrument of the devil?"

"What would you do,” he said, “if

PHOENIX, 6-5-84 (PCN) — The
General Assembly voted to urge the
U.S government “to act in support
of human rights in the Republic of
Korea." It especially called on the
U.S. government to impress upon
the government of the Republic of
Korea “the importance of restoring
a genuinely free press" and “the
right to peaceful assembly ” It fur-
ther urged that election laws be
reformed, and that the Special Law
which "continues to ban 99 promi-

npnt fih70nc trnm nopKpinoKnn In

military aid to the Marcos govern-
ment in the Philippines

The Assembly called upon the U.S.
government to ‘ ’remove any nuclear
weapons from U.S military in-
stallations in the Philippines and to
assure the Filipino people that none
will be maintained there in the
future.”

The Assembly further urges that
economic aid to the Philippines be
conditioned upon "the return to full

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ATTITUDFEpSmmKFnTE° THAT PAHK’S ARROGANT AND DEFIANT
OiIiTUDE RROOOHED OFFICIALS MORE AND AT ONE TIME RFP1 (FA

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for number°0f^i nci dents °involving°Uhum an G°^me*t

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CELEBRATION PREPARATIONS WE WILL CONTINUES?™ aAS HURT
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Celebration in Korea:

Years With the Gospel

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MISSION RALIY FOR THE 100TH UWmxi tmosao
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Above, at Yoido Plaza, one million people listened to the
Gospel message. Ten million more watched on
television. At left, above, 5,000 pastors attended a
seminar with Billy Graham. Middle, in spite of a ban
keeping many cars off the streets, people came by bus
and on foot to the Anniversary Celebration. At right,

Billy Graham and the Reverend Dr. Han, Kyung-Chik,
chairman of the 100th Anniversary event

8 DECISION December 1984

They came by foot across the Han River to
the runway of the once-major Seoul
airstrip, now called Yoido Plaza. Traffic was held
back except for buses, which stretched as far as
the eye could see. waiting to pull up and
discharge passengers. On the people came to
that 120°-sunbaked asphalt, packed in by
marked sections until a million people were
there. They had come for the closing service of
the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the
Protestant Church in Korea.

But that was only a fraction of those who
might have come, for early that morning a
government-imposed “gasoline savings exercise
placed a ban on all even-numbered license
plates so that only one-half of the privately
owned automobiles were allowed on the streets.
Yet, by bus and on foot the people came for the

event, an event too important to miss. Still,
although many had to stay at home, they didn t
have to stay away. A nationwide television
broadcast, sponsored by the network itself, took
the hour-and-a-half service to the entire country,
with an estimated ten million participating
around their television sets. So. when Billy
Graham stood to speak Sunday afternoon,
August 19, he had an audience of 11 million
people.

Mr. Graham had been invited to this event by
the Korean Church. They had wanted him to
come in spite of Mr. Graham s three-month
schedule of “Mission: England that had just
ended, which had taken him to six cities across
the nation. That the Koreans wanted him was
emphasized by the Reverend Dr. Han, Kyung-
Chik, chairman of the 100th Anniversary event.

by Russell T. Hitt

lfc^lo season of the >ear is quite
JB^Jlike Christmas Most of us
have memories of happy family
gatherings, the Christmas tree, the
house decorated with evergreens,
mistletoe and poinsettias. Even the
rush of wading through the ever
lengthening Christmas card list, the
last-minute shopping and the
wrapping of presents are intrinsic
parts of the holiday hullabaloo.
Sometimes, in an off moment, we
may remember that this annual
festival commemorates the birth of
Jesus Christ.

During the first three centuries
of the Christian era. so the
historians tell us. the church

to join in a spontaneous
performance of Handel's "Messiah."
One can hardly escape the
message of redemption even in our
day of religious indifference.

When I was a young newspaper
man working for the "International
Herald Tribune" in Paris, a group
of us attended the beautiful
midnight mass held in the
Cathedral of Notre-Dame. It was a
glorious musical event, even
though many of us were unmoved
by the central message of the

What started out as a duty turned
into unmerited reward.

During the last 25 years we have
spent each Christmas Eve with a
group of close Christian friends It
is always a great evening— with lots
of food, bright talk and roars of
laughter. The evening generally
ends with moments of prayer.

But one Christmas Eve in
particular stands out vividly in my
mind It was December. 1%8 That
was the year Apollo 8 was making
the first circumnavigation of the
moon. The crew consisted of
Colonel Frank Borman. Captain

and closest Christian friends we
watched this epochal spectacle on
our television set. Then we heard
the voice of Frank Borman: "For
all the people back on Earth." he
said, "the crew of Apollo 8 has a
message that we would like to send
you " Then Anders began reading,
"In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth, and Anders
continued for four verses of
Genesis I.

Then Lovell took up the reading,
And God called the light Day. and
the darkness he called Night/'

When Lovell had read through
the eighth verse. Boiman picked
up the familiar words: "And God
said. Let the waters under the

opposed the pagan custom of
celebrating birthdays. Yet there is
some evidence that a purely
religious celebration of our Lord's
birth was included in the Feast of
the Epiphany on January 6.

The serious-minded Puritans
condemned Christmas festivities
and this spirit was carried over to
America by the Pilgrims. It was not
until the 19th-century wave of Irish
and German immigration that
Christmas observance was revived
in our country. Both Roman
Catholics and Protestants soon
were celebrating the holiday.

My own parents belonged to a
group of strict believers who
discouraged making much of the
Christmas holidays. As I recall. I
was six years old before my father
relented and brought home a
Christmas tree and set it up in a
living room lined with Scripture
texts. I still remember the little red
cast-iron fire engine that was one
of my first Christmas gifts.

It's true that many of the ways
we celebrate the holiday come
from heathen and non-Christian
sources. The Church at Rome set
December 25 at the time of the
winter solstice to turn the people
away from the entrenched practice
of observing the Saturnalia, one of
the merriest of the pagan Roman
festivals. Maybe our glittering
Christmas trees hark back to the
practice of tree worship in ancient
Rome and Egypt.

In our own day we are treated
regularly to diatribes against the
commercialization of Christmas.
There is no denying the truth of
this. Yet every year I'm thrilled
again and again by the majestic
music that sounds forth from our
stereos and television sets that
herald the story of the Incarnation.
In the city of Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania, hundreds of amateur
singers jam the Academy of Music

Russell T Hut. for 22 years editor of Eternity
maganne. now serves as contributing editor of
"Eternity and news editor of Evangelical
Newsletter He is the author of several books
including How Christians Grow Dr Hitt and
his wife. Lillian, live in Menon Station
Pennsylvania and attend Presbyterian Church
of the Covenant in Bala Cynwyd G 1984 Billy
Graham Evangelistic Association

religious ceremony. Even Christian
ritual is empty when the heart is
not attuned to the glory of the
Incarnation.

I'm sure the teacher of the adult
Sunday School class in my home
church would not have approved
my attending that Christmas Eve
midnight mass. A sober-faced,
almost unhappy man. he always
stressed the fact that our Lord was
a "Man of Sorrows." One who
never smiled. It surely is true that
Jesus was a "Man of Sorrows.” who
suffered the incomprehensible
agony of the cross. That is the
wonderful paradox of our faith —
because he suffered, we can

rejoice. Gladness and jubilation
have become our birthright by
God's Grace.

What warm feelings of nostalgia
wash over us as we recall the
happy Christmas experiences we
shared with our children. Those
were priceless times — maybe more
significant in retrospect. And. in
due time, these precious moments
were duplicated with grandchildren.

On some occasions we included
single friends in our family
gatherings. One grumpy elderly
widow, who was irreverently and
privately dubbed Mrs. Sourpuss by
our incorrigible children,
completely melted when she
finished off her plum pudding.
From that particular meal forward
we had won a friend for life.

As so often happens, we felt we
were the beneficiaries when such
guests joined us for holiday meals.

James A. Lovell. Jr., and
Colonel William A. Anders.
Borman was a lay reader
in the Episcopal church.
Lovell was Episcopalian and
Anders a devout Catholic. That
Christmas Eve they joined in a
sacred service the world will
never forget

On the morning of December 24
Apollo 8 had entered the moon's
sphere of gravitational influences
and three astronauts — the first men

in history — would see the other
side of the moon. From their sky-
borne vehicle they witnessed a
sight withheld from man since
creation.

In their lunar pathway they saw
the distant ball of Earth from one
window of their satellite and new
vistas of the moon from another. In
the happy company of our dearest

heaven be gathered together unto
one place, and let the dry
land appear and It was so.
And God called the dry land
Earth; and the gathering
together of the waters called
he Seas: and God saw that it
was good."

The commander added: "And
from the crew of Apollo 8. we
close with good night, good luck
and a Merry Christmas. And God
bless all of you. "'

It was a time of rare emotion.

The mixture of the season, the
Immortal words, the ancient moon
and the new technology made for
an extraordinary, effective setting.

We were humble worshipers of
the One whose birthday was about
to be celebrated — as It had been
for centuries— as a part of this
holy, joyous Advent season. The
television spectacle caused us to
recall that "all things were made by
him."' Even above the sun and
moon which he had formed, he
was the light |that| shines In the
darkness

This was the Word made flesh,
the One who lived for a time
among us. The astronauts were
witnesses to his power in creation.
We are the recipients of his
redemptive Grace.

Instead of shrinking from
celebrating the holiday, we should
rejoice that this marked the
beginning of a new era Heaven s
Best joined us at Bethlehem, and
we worship Immanuel— God with
us.

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DECISION Dv ember 1984 7

God Said It...

Generosity

by William H. Baker

Week One:

Generosity—

Of God.

MEMORY VERSE: "He who did not spare His
own Son. but delivered Him up for us all. how
will He not also with Him freely give us all
things?" (Romans 8:32, NASB).

What does this mean? God himself is the
primary example of generosity In fact,
generosity is the greatest token of his love, for
when Jesus stated to Mlcodemus that "God so
loved the world," he set forth that love in terms
of God's giving his "only begotten Son"' to the

William M Baker It professor of Uilile nntl theology at Moody
Bible Inslllule C hicago, Illinois and It the author of the book
Worthy ol Death fie and hit wife, I mrna louise are the
iiarerilt of four children and live In Wheaton llllnolt 01984
Billy Graham I vonyelistir Attoclaliori

world as a provision for man s salvation

God gives the very best gifts, although these
gifts may not always be just what we think we
want Instead he provides what we need.* In the
Sermon on the Mount Jesus taught that no
father, if his son asks him for a fish, will give
him a snake 1 And it is probably safe to say that
no father, if his son asks him for a snake, will
give him a snake! James declares the principle
this way: "Every good thing bestowed and every
perfect gift is from above."4

To appreciate the generosity of God. observe
some of the things the Bible says that God
gives. God gives wisdom in the midst of trials
"liberally. He satisfies the "thirsty" soul, and
the "hungry" soul he fills with "what is good."4
This probably refers to spiritual blessing such as
justification, sanctification and Biblical truths.
But most comprehensively God has given the
' earth ... to the children of men”7; "life and
breath and all things"4 to all; and eternal life to
those who believe in Jesus Christ.*

Our response to God's generosity is an
important element in God s principle of Grace in
his dealings with us. Man tends to be legalistic,
and he tries to do good works to achieve the
blessings of God. But in God's principle of
Grace his blessings lead us to do good works.
Legalism says. "Do this or that in order to gain
God's blessing." Grace says. "Since God has so
generously blessed you in Christ, do this or that
in grateful response."

The Bible says, "Beloved, if God so loved us,
we also ought to love one another."10

Week Two:

Generosity —

In Serving God.

MEMORY VERSE: For whoever wishes to save
his life shall lose it. but whoever loses his life
for My sake, he is the one who will save it"
(Luke 9.24. NASB).

What does this mean? The essence of
selfishness is "saving" (preserving) one's life.
Jesus deliberately uses unusual, paradoxical
language in order to shock his listeners into
reality. One's "life" here is what he selfishly
clings to as important, the universal trait of
unregenerate mankind. The ultimate goal of
such a life is eternal loss in the Lake of Fire.

How then do we "lose" our life for Christ's
sake, so that we "save" it? Judging from the
context of Luke 9:24. we do this by following
Jesus Christ as his disciples. This begins by
confessing Jesus as the Christ (Messiah) who
died and rose again."

This leads to two things: worship and
ministry. In the Old Testament the priests
worshiped and ministered in the Tabernacle, and
when Paul uses the words "service of worship"12
(one word in the Greek) in regard to the
believer's consecration of himself, he is using an
expression that pertains to the activities of the
Old Testament priest. This consecration of life
leads, of course, to exercising our spiritual gifts
as members of the Body of Christ, according to
Romans 12:3-8.

And We Can Live By It

Learning to Be

Generous

by Judith George

It's mine!"

"No. it's mine!"

Children's voices echo up the hall amid
screams of protest as the sound of crying
increases. I hurry down the hall to intervene,
thinking. Won't they ever learn to share?"

There in the midst of strewn lock-blocks,
dolls, cars and coloring books sit my two
children fighting over the same toy. as if it
were the only one in existence. I send them to
their rooms with the words. "God wants us to
share!"

Judith George is a housewife and free lance writer who has
written several articles and poems Mrs George and her
husband. Richard, are the parents of two children and live in
Sparta. Wisconsin The Georges attend St John s Evangelical
Lutheran Church 01984 Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association

10 DECISION December 1984

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He recalled Mr. Graham's visits to the troops
during the Korean War, “when you preached not
only to our military, but gave light and the hope
of the Gospel to the Korean people.” He said “I
cannot forget the 1973 Yoido Plaza meetings
when you brought light to our growing
churches. We begged you to come again. You
are here. We are grateful to you and grateful to
God.

The Korean Church, which has grown to take
in a quarter of the entire population of the
Republic of Korea, has 4.000 churches in Seoul
alone, whereas 100 years ago there were fewer
than one hundred Protestants in the entire
country. Today Korea has some of the largest
churches in the world, including one with
390 000 members. The Korean Church, born in
hardship, suffering through persecution, growing
during the Korean War and now entering
prosperity, has felt all of the pressure that
growth" brings— personality cults, leadership
struggles, morality problems — and they knew it.

I here was repentance, there was commitment.

I he five-day centenary celebration included
other events at the Yoido Plaza, focusing on
reconciliation, church unity, unification and
peace.

Mr. Graham s schedule in Korea was packed
with public and private meetings with clerqy-
with civic, governmental and military leaders
and with missionaries. He spoke to 5,000
pastors, challenging them to proclaim the
Gospel. Mr. Graham, using the letters to the
seven churches in the book of Revelation, listed
the things that God knew about the church
including the church of Korea, and he qave’ a
ringing call to faithfulness.

On Sunday when Billy Graham stood to
preach to that vast audience, he invited the
people to pray with him: “O God, speak to me.”
And across the plaza they prayed — one million
voices. Then he challenged the people: "The
only way to God is through Christ. You must
repent, change your mind and change your way
of living and live your life with Christ as Lord
and Savior." When he invited those who would
accept Christ to raise their hands, thousands
did. As those thousands of hands were raised in
response to the invitation to accept Christ, the
people were told, “Your lifted hand is an
outward symbol of something you are saying
inside, that you are giving your heart to Christ
as best you know how. You are surrendering
your heart and mind and will to Christ.” Then
he asked the Christians to stand if they were
willing to say, "Lord, use me.” And they stood
by the hundreds of thousands as Mr. Graham
led them in prayer: “Receive us we pray: we
dedicate ourselves to You to practice Christ in
everyday life.” The entire plaza was filled with
standing people.

Dr_Samue_l Hugh Moffett, who is Henry W.
Luce professor of missions and ecumenics, as
well as head of the church history department at
Princeton Theological Seminary, was born and
reared in Korea and served as a missionary
there until three years ago.* He returned to
Korea for this centenary celebration. He said of
what happened at Yoido Plaza: "This filled a
great need. There was depth here, and I’m so
grateful! I kept thinking, This is where my
father crossed the Han River in January, 1890,
when there were fewer than a hundred
Protestants in all Korea.’ ”

Salvation Army Lieutenant Colonel Paul
Rader, who also was a missionary to Korea until
this past year when he took the post of principal
of the Salvation Army School for Officer
Training in Mew York, said, "The Koreans did
this themselves. They organized it themselves,
got the people there. The significance of Dr.
Graham's presence was in raising the standard
of the centrality of the evangelistic task for
Korea today as the hope of the future of the
nation. Of course, he’s the kind of preacher who
can rally the somewhat scattered forces of the
Korean Church. That’s why his presence here
was so important. Another thing was the
response. That response to what he was saying I
found encouraging, vital and immediate. That
said to me that the right notes were being
sounded.”

The Korean Church has been a lighthouse to
the world through their evangelistic
commitment, their church growth and their
early morning daily prayer meetings— people
leave their homes at 4:00 in the morning to
pray at 4:30 in the church every day. One after
another openly speaks of his faith in Christ,
whether he is a waiter in a coffee shop or a
minister of government affairs.

The anniversary meeting was a historic
occasion in church history, and it was not
missed by the press. All week long television,
radio and newspapers were filled with the
Centennial events. Whole supplements pointed
to the growth of the church and to the coming
of Billy Graham. Banners stretched across many
thoroughfares proclaiming the event. The
government issued a postage stamp
commemorating the 100th Anniversary. At a
special luncheon given for Mr. Graham, the
Minister of State for Political Affairs, the
Honorable Lee, Tae-Sup, welcomed Mr. Graham,
and President Chun, Doo-Hwan invited the
evangelist to his office for a personal visit.

Another welcome and sign of blessing came
minutes before the start of the Sunday
Centennial service when, though the sun was
shining and only a few clouds dotted the sky,
there was suddenly a growing sound of awe
from the throats of the people seated there.

They could see what those on the platform
could not see — behind the platform was a
rainbow.

The Reverend Dr. Billy Kim, pastor of Central
Baptist Church in Suwon, director for Far East
Broadcasting in Korea and director of Youth For
Christ-Korea, translated for Mr. Graham. He
summarized the event at Yoido Plaza as he saw
it: “The Spirit of God is here. Billy Graham
preached with authority and with keen
understanding of the Korean situation. I felt that
the message communicated with the people.

This will help in the days ahead."

That day 1 1 million people heard the call to
follow Christ — what that will mean to the
country and to the world only the next 100
years will tell. The evidence of commitment was
there that Sunday in Seoul; the fruit of that
commitment is yet to be gathered. In Korea God
has a people who are willing to obey — he will
honor that.

Roger C. Palms

•See Dr. Moffett's story about the early years in Korea, "Korea's
Unconquerable Christians," "Decision," July-August, 1984

DECISION December 1984 9

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THE KOREA TIMES, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1984

( Culture )

For Accepting Gospel

Billy Graham Appeals
For Heavenly Reward

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By Cho Sang-hee

Lauding the “tremendous
performance” of the Korean
athletes in the Los Angeles
Olympic Games, the Ameri-
can evangelist Billy Graham
speaks up for the “heavenly
reward" for accepting the Gos-
pel. Rev. Billy Graham, visit-
ing Seoul to preach at the cen-
tennial of the Korean Protes-
tant Church, so stated yester-
day in a meeting with the
press at the Westin Chosun.

Opening the conference with
the remark on the athletes, be-
ing welcomed at nearby city
hall plaza, the Southern Bap-
tist minister told the report-
ers how up-to-date it was that
Bible message delivered to
Greeks some 2,000 years ago,
citing the first Pauline epistle
to the Corinthians about run-
ners for the prize.

Describing the Korean
Church, both the Protestant
and Catholic, as “one of the
fastest growing churches in the
world,” Dr. Graham said that
he would recall among the
audience at the Sunday (Aug.
19) rally at the Yoi-do plaza
for his scheduled preaching,
the past history of Korean
Protestant Church and its
changes in the last decade.

The North Carolina-born
evangelist was here in 1973 for
a crusade. In 1952, he visited
the war-torn country and
preached in uniform for mili-
tary men in Pusan and Taegu
and some other cities.

Asked of his chance of visit-

Billv Graham

ing north Korea for his world-
wide evangelism, the Rev. Bil-
ly Graham said, “If I were
invited and allowed to preach
without any restrictions, I
would be glad to go.”

The head of the Billy Gra-
ham Evangelistic Association
said, however, “We don’t
have much knowledge about
the ‘silent church’ in the
north.”

Citing the harassment upon
the Roman Christians of the
early church and the difficulty
of tile apostles’ work there,
the evangelist said the seed of
Gospel should be sown every-
where, to the end of the world.

“Jesus never promised an
easy life,” said Dr. Graham,
stressing the denial of the self
and the will to carry the cross,
which he regards as a key to
the development of the Chris-
tianity and the church.

The Rev. Billy Graham,
whose five-day crusade in 1973
in Seoul claimed a cumulative
attendance of 3.2 million, at-
tributed the rapid growth of
the Korean Protestant Church
to ' its characteristics as the
church emphasizing the pray-
er, the Gospel and the educa-
tion both for missionary ob-
jectives and social develop-
ment.

“When I was here in 1952 I
found hundreds of people got
together at five o’clock in the
morning in the church. I took
the finding back to America
but nobody seemed to believe
it. I believe that it’s still in
the practice (here).”

Asked to comment on recent
scandal concerning the Rev.
Park Cho-choon’s illegal taking
out of dollars abroad, Dr. Gra-
ham declined to do so saying
he has little information on
the subject.

On the Rev. Moon Sun-
myung’s ministry and impri-
sonment of the founder of the
Unification Church, he said,
“Rev. Moon has a great
charisma ... I have seen him
on TV (without personal meet-
ing).” Dr. Graham added that
the majority of American
Christians regard the religious
movement “a cult or heresy.”

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Women show the logo featuring the word “Bonn” on their shirts in this picture. De-
signer Doris Schlueter-Casse has won the Toulouse-Lautrec award for her logo design featur-
ing the word with a set of female lips set at an angle as a substitute for the letter “O.” The
logo, a promotion gimmick for the city of Bonn, has been imitated in many variations.

Rev. Moffett Married, Religious Women
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fett, a noted American mis-
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mination of his field service
here and became a professor
at his alma mater, Princeton
University.

The Pyongyang-born min-
ister is teaching ecumenics
and mission as a Henry Luce
professor at Princeton The-
ological Seminary, in Prince-
ton, N.J.

Dr. Moffett will preach for
the foreign congregation of
Seoul Union Church this Sun-
day at 9:30 a. m. at the Grand
Ballroom of Westin Chosun.

Harpist Mun
Recital With

A majority of women who
are ready to serve as volun-
teers are" from the middle-
income bracket, religious, in-
experienced, and in their 30s
and 40s with a high school
education or more, a recent
survey of 279 women who
were admitted at the Women
Volunteers Bank showed.

“Desire to serve” is what
motivates 22.5 percent of the
applicants to the unpaid
career, according to the sur-
vey result released by the Ko-
rean National Women’s In-
stitute which runs the Wom-
en Volunteers Bank, the first
such body to pool and distri-
bute a women’s free work-
force at the request of various
social organizations.

Fourteen percent, on the
other hand, are applying to
offer service to “make better
use of free time,” while 13
percent expect the career
“would help improve one’s
own self,” and 9.2 percent
state “a good means of social
commitment” as reason for

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volunteering.

Christians appear to be
more ready to serve, accord-
ing to the survey, than follow-
ers of other religions.

Applicants come from dif-
ferent age groups ranging
from the teens to the 60s, the
survey showed, and 60.9 per-
cent of them are married, a
majority of them with one or
two children.

Thirteen percent of the ap-
plicants were or are profes-
sionals such as school instruc-
tors or administrative-manag-
erial post holders, while 11
percent have been in commer-
cial business, the survey said.

Twenty-seven percent are
able to speak, comprehend and
write one or two foreign lan-
guages such as English, Jap-
anese, French, and German,
which they said their hope will
be useful in leading their new
non-paid careers.

Eighty-two percent of the
survey respondents want to
serve part-time, but 8.6 per-
cent or 24 applicants out of
the 279 describe themselves
as “available at any time of

the month.”

Seventeen percent, the larg-

Prince Vies
With Jackson,
Springsteen

NEW YORK (UPI) -
Prince Rogers Nelson, the
newest w underkind in popular
music, is giving both Michael
Jackson and Bruce Spring-
steen a run for the money as
the most important rocker of
the year.

The shy, diminutive 26-year-
old rocker from Minneapolis
has an album, “Purple Rain,”
and single, “When Doves
Cry,” that both hit No. 1. That
alone is no mean feat in a
summer when both Spring-
steen and the Jacksons have
new albums and are on tour.

Perhaps even more impres-
sive is his film debut in “Pur-
ple Rain,” widely regarded as
one of the best rock movies
ever made.

In the absence of in-depth
interviews, which he has de-
clined for a year, the rumor
mill is grinding away at full
speed. Prince is quickly be-
coming a larger-than-life fig-
ure of the proportions Jackson
has cut for himself.

There is the gossip: He is
deeply religious, he idolizes
Jimi. Hendrix, even that his
favorite foods are chocolate-
dipped strawberries and dori-
tos. And the mysteries: Does
he date his co-star, Appolonia
of Appolonia 6? What happen-
ed to her predecessor, Vanity
of Vanity 6?

Paramount in the new
Prince mythology is the belief
that “Purple Rain” is an auto-
biographical sketch of the ro-
cker, heretofore known for the
hit singles “Little Red Cor-
vette” and “1999.”

UK Novelist
Rriestley Dies

LONDON (AP) — J.B. Pri-
estley, one of Britain’s fore-
most novelists and essayists,
died Tuesday (Aug. 14), his
publishers announced Wednes-
day. He was 89.

Author of more than 100
works from best-selling novels
to plays and criticism, the
portly, pipe-smoking Yorkshi-
reman was also famous as a
champion of causes — an
ever-present social critic who
enjoyed controversy.

During World War II, his

Social Events

Peruvian Ambassador to Ko-
rea Jorge Chavez-Soto, right,
hosted a luncheon at this of-
ficial residence in Seoul Thurs-
day for Adm. Ricardo Zevallos,
second from left, visiting
chairman of the Peruvian
Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Among the guests of the lun-
cheon meeting were Gen. Lee
Ki-baek left, chairman of the
ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff, and
Adm. Oh Kyung-hwan, second

from right, chief of ROK nav
al operations.

Adm. Zevallos, who is con-
currently commanding gener-
al of the Peruvian Navy, is to
leave Seoul today, winding up
his five-day tour to Korea at
the invitation of Adm. Oh.

While staying here, Zevallos
visited the forward area and
major industrial complexes.
He also had talks with senior
government officials and mili-
tary officers.

f t '

Granville Watts, the Seoul
bureau chief of Reuters, gave
a reception yesterday to mark
the -recent opening of the
news agency’s new office on
the second floor of the Sam-
whan Building, Unni-dong.

The evening function was

attended by members of Se-
oul Correspondents Club and
officials of the Korea Over-
seas Information Service. -
The Reuters office had for-
merly been on the 10th floor
of the same building overlook-
ing the Secret Garden.

Weekend on Tube

* “Day of the Animals” (* *)
(KBS-2, 9:30 p.m., Saturday)

Christopher George, Leslie
Nielsen, Michael Ansara. Yarn
about how aerosol sprays turn
some animals into man-kill-
ers. George and Ansara play
the fearless leaders of a
wilderness tour. Pointless and
repulsive. (Dir: William

Girdler)

* * *

“Death Be Not Proud” (** *“)
(KBS-1, 10 p.m., Sunday)

Arthur Hill, Jane Alexander,
Robby Benson. A moving film
based on a memoir by John
Gunther, in which he wrote
about his teenaged son’s vali-
ant bout with cancer and the

duation will leave you limp.
Made-for-television film. (Dir:
Ronald Wrye)

* * •

“Stalag 17” <****)
(KBS-3, 1:10 p.m., Sunday)

William Holden, Don Taylor,
Otto Preminger. Among the
best of the prison-camp films,
alternately suspenseful, drama-
tic, comic, brilliantly directed
by Billy Wilder. Holden’s per-
formance as a cynical sergeant
suspected of being a spy won
him the Academy Award —
rest of the cast is fine, espe-
cially Sig Ruman as a guard.
Excellent World War II film.
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(AFKN, 3:30 p.m., Sunday)

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Princeton

Theological

Seminary

Ph.D.

FIELDS OF STUDY AND FACULTY

Biblical Studies

David R. Adams, James F. Armstrong, J. Christiaan Beker, James H. Charlesworth,
Martinus de Boer, Thomas W. Gillespie, Paul W. Meyer, Patrick W. Miller, Ben C.
Ollenburger, J.J.M. Roberts, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, Cullen 1 K Story

Theology, Ethics, Philosophy

Diogenes Allen, Edward A. Dowey, Jr„ Sang H. Lee, Lois G. Livezey, Daniel L.
Migliore, Mark Kline Taylor, Charles C. West, E. David Willis

Programs

1985-86

Thomas W. Gillespie
President

Katharine Doob Sakenfeld
Director, Ph.D. Studies

Financial Aid

History of Christianity

Jane Dempsey Douglass, Edward A. Dowey, Jr., Karlfried Froehlich, Kathleen
McVey, Samuel H. Moffett, James H. Moorhead, Charles A. Ryerson III

Ecumenics, Missiology, History of Religions
Samuel H. Moffett, Charles A. Ryerson III, Charles C. West

Practical Theology

(Theology and Communication in Preaching, Pastoral Theology, Christian Education)
Sandra R. Brown, Donald E. Capps, Craig R. Dykstra, Freda Gardner, Geddes W.
Hanson, James N. Lapsley, Jr., James E. Loder, Thomas G. Long, Conrad H. Massa,
J. Randall Nichols

Religion and Society

(Social Ethics, Human Sciences, History of Religions) Richard K. Fenn, Lois G.
Livezey, Charles A. Ryerson III, Charles C. West

A limited number of fellowships covering
full tuition and fees plus S3030 in living
allowance may be awarded to entering Ph.D.
candidates on the basis of superior academic
promise.

Scholarship grants and National Direct
Student Loans are available for up to four
years of study in cases of financial need.

Up to 1 2 teaching fellowships are awarded
annually, usually to candidates who have
completed their first year of doctoral study.
A total return of $4675 includes a tuition
grant, a scholarship award, and a stipend
for instructional assistance under faculty
supervision.

To apply or inquire, write:

Prof. Katharine Doob Sakenfeld
Princeton Theological Seminary
CN 821

Princeton, New Jersey 08542
telephone: (609)921-8300

Princeton Theological Seminary admits students of
any race, color and national or ethnic origin with-
out regard to sex, age, or handicap.

Professor J. Christiaan Beker with PhD. candidates Lynn Nakamura and Bart Ehrman

Princeton Theological Seminary
FACULTY COMMITTEES - 1984-85

Secretary of the General Faculty: Mr. Brower
Secretary of the Senior Faculty: Mr. J. F. Armstrong
Dean of the Seminary: Mr. Massa
Academic Dean: Mr. Lapsley
Faculty Marshals: Mr. Beeners, Mr. Willis
Director of Admissions:

Registrar: Mr. J. F. Armstrong

Director of Professional Studies: Ms. Nicholson

Director of Summer School: Mr. Wall

Director of Biblical Language Program: Mr. Story

DEPARTMENT CHAIRPERSONS

Biblical Studies: Mr. Roberts
History: Mr^Moffett
Theology: Mr. Willis
Practical: Mr. Capps

1. ADMISSIONS 3. CURRICULUM

Massa (1985), Chair
Story (1985)

Gardner (1986)

Lee (1986)

Miller (1987)

Armstrong, J. F. (1987)

Director of Admissions, Secretary
Crawford (Student Relations)
Lansill (Financial Aid)

2. BLACK CONCERNS

Hanson (1985), Chair
Story (1985)
Ollenburger (1986)
McVey (1986)
de Boer (1987)

Meyer (1987)
Lapsley, ex officio

Gillespie, Chair
Lapsley, Vice-Chair
Massa

Armstrong, J. F., Secretary
Capps (Practical Theology)
Moffett (History)

Roberts (Biblical Studies)
Willis (Theology)

Gardner (School of C.E.)

Loder (Church and Society)

4. D.MIN. STUDIES

Armstrong, R. S. (1985), Chair
Adams (1985)

Brown (1986)

Edwards (1986)

Moorhead (1987)

Ollenburger (1987)

Nichols, Secretary
Waanders (New Brunswick)
Lapsley, ex officio

Faculty Committees
1984-85

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5. LIBRARY

Beker (1985), Chair
Moorhead (1985)
Dowey (1986)
Dykstra (1986)
Charlesworth (1987)
Seow (1987)

Willard, ex officio

6. NON-CREDIT PROGRAMS

Massa, Chair
Lapsley
Allen (1985)

Beker (1986)

Nichols (1986)

Miller (1987)

White (Continuing Education)

7. PH.D. STUDIES

Froehlich (1985), Chair
Dowey (1985)

Moffett (1985)_

Long "(19861

Meyer (1986)

Migliore (1986)

Dykstra (1987)
Sakenfeld (1987)

8. PLANNING

Armstrong, R. S. (1985)
Migliore (1986)

(1987)

9. PREACHERS AND LECTURERS

Allen (1987), Chair
Brown (1985)

Howden (1985)

Beeners (1986)

Charlesworth (1986)

10. PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

Beeners (1985), Chair
Adams (1985)
de Boer (1986)

McVey (1986)

Harkey (1987)

Taylor (1987)

Nicholson

Davis

11. FACULTY SEMINAR

Willard (1985)
Willis (1986)
Ryerson (1987)
Lapsley, ex officio

12. SUMMER SCHOOL

(To be announced)

13. WOMEN IN CHURCH AND MINISTRY

Livezey (1986), Chair
Gaines (1985)

Noren (1985)

Ryerson (1986)

Massa (1987)

West (1987)

14. CHURCH AND SOCIETY

Loder (1985), Chair
Taylor (1985)

Hanson (1986)

Ryerson (1986)

Livezey (1987)

West (1987)

15. COUNCIL OF ACADEMIC ADVISERS
(Appointed by Departments)

The President is a member ex officio of all committees of the Faculty and of the
Board of Trustees.

Live ,
.and
Learn

at the

Overseas Ministries
Study Center

Times of worship, prayer, Bible study and social activities com-
bine with the ongoing classroom fellowship and interaction with
lecturers to create a community life that is spiritually enriching
and vocationally renewing. More than a score of subjects on the
Christian world mission are dealt with each year at OMSC Res-
idents may earn Continuing Education Units (CEU) OMSC also
offers its own Certificate in Mission Studies

OMSC is a member of the Society for the Advancement of
Continuing Education for Ministry, and has affiliate status in the
Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Can-
ada OMSC is committed to a policy of non-discrimination with
regard to race and sex for admission to residence and all OMSC
programs.

OMSC offers fully furnished apartments, 1,2,3 and 4 bedrooms.
Priority is given to mission personnel applying for a regular fur-
lough period and to mission scholars and church leaders on study
leave.

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Wails

Moffett

Sookhdeo

Powell

Patterson

Wllmore

Lara-Braud

Clarke

Rieckleman

1984-85 Schedule of Courses*

Sept. 13: Orientation. 9 00-11 45 A M All adult residents are
expected to attend Reception and tea, 3 30-4 45 PM. All
residents, staff and visitors are invited
Sept 17-21: THE KINGDOM OF GOD: RECOVERING A
BIBLICAL VISION OF MISSION Dr Arthur F Glasser,
professor of theology and mission, and former dean, School
of World Mission. Fuller Theological Seminary
Sept 24-28: SPIRITUAL GROWTH THROUGH MISSION
IN COMMUNITY. Sr. Maria F Rieckleman, M M M.D.. pro-
fessor of psychiatry and pastoral counseling, Loyola College
of Baltimore, and Rev. Thomas E Clarke, S.J., author and
lecturer. Cosponsored by Maryknoll Mission Institute
Oct. 2-5: Effective Communication with the Folks Back
Home: A Writing Workshop for Missionaries. Robert T
Coote, OMSC staff; former managing editor. Eternity.

Oct. 8-12: Reading Week: World Christian Encyclopedia.
David B Barrett, ed. (Oxford, 1982), especially pp. 1-121
This week will conclude with a discussion led by OMSC staff,
Friday morning, Oct. 12.

Oct. 16-19: Crucial Issues in Mission Today. Dr Gerald
H. Anderson, director, OMSC; former United Methodist mis-
sionary in the Philippines.

Oct. 22-26: THE FUTURE OF WORLD EVANGELIZA-
TION: SCENARIOS. STRATEGIES. RESOURCES. Dr

David B Barrett, editor, World Christian Encyclopedia: mis-
sionary of the Church Missionary Society, Nairobi, Kenya

^ Oct. 30-Nov. 2: History's Lessons for Tomorrow's Mis-
sion. Dr. Samuel H Moffett, professor of Mission and Ecu-
menics, Princeton Theological Seminary. Cosponsored by the
Center of Continuing Education, Princeton
Nov. 5-9: WHEN FAITH MEETS FAITHS: CHRISTIAN
WITNESS IN TODAY'S PLURALISTIC SOCIETIES.
Patrick Sookhdeo, pastor and director of In Contact Ministries,
London; member Lausanne Study Group, "Christian
Witness to Muslims.”

'Capitalized titles indicate an intensive seminar, which entails eight ses-
sions with lecturer; all other courses entail four sessions. Intensive
seminars meet morning and afternoon; other courses meet mornings
only All church and mission -related personnel are welcome to partic-
ipate in the OMSC Study Program, whether or not they are in residence
on the OMSC campus. Tuition. Intensive seminar — $45 per person
per week, all other courses — $30 per person per week

McCloud Joseph Goss-Mayr Deats

Nov. 13-16: Evangelicals and Roman Catholics in Mis-
sion: Convergences and Divergences. Rev Thomas F
Stransky, The Paulists.

Nov 26-30: THE ADVANCE OF THE GOSPEL AMONG
PRIMAL PEOPLES: LESSONS FOR WIDER WITNESS

Dr. Andrew F Walls, professor of Religious Studies, University
of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Dec. 3-7: UNDERSTANDING YOURSELF AS PERSON.
PARTNER AND PARENT. Dr. John Fbwell, professor of
Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Michigan State University,

1985

Jan 7-11: GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE. EVERY
WHERE. A comprehensive, month-long survey of the world
Christian mission, cosponsored with OMSC by the Theological
Students Fellowship and 30 seminaries. If students can come
for only one week, they may choose any week; academic credit
is offered by the student's own school. The first week's theme:
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN MISSION, presented by
visiting lecturers from the seminaries.

Jan 14 18: GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE. EVERY-
WHERE: NEW FRONTIERS IN CHRISTIAN WITNESS.
Visiting lecturers from the seminaries.

Jan 21-25: MISSION IN THE AMERICAS: AN INTER-
AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE. Dr Jorge Lara-Braud, director
of the Council on Theology and Culture, Presbyterian Church
in the U.S.A.

Feb. 11-14: BLACKS IN MISSION: TO AMERICA AND
BEYOND Ms. Mary Jane Patterson, director, Washington
Office, Presbyterian Church in the U S A . Dr Gayraud S.
Wilmore, professor of Afro-American Studies, and dean, New
York Theological Seminary; Dr J Oscar McCloud, director,
Program Agency, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. This sem-
inar will be held at the Center of Continuing Education. Prince-
ton Theological Seminary, which is cosponsoring the seminar.

Feb. 18-22: Reading Week Announcing the Reign of God.
by Mortimer Arias (Fortress Press, 1984) This week will con-
clude with a discussion led by OMSC staff, Friday morning

Feb. 26-Mar. 1: Health-Care Issues in the Two-Thirds
World: An Indian Christian Perspective. Dr L B M
Joseph, director. Vellore Christian Medical College and Hos-
pital, India

Mar. 4-8: SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH NON-
VIOLENCE: THE WITNESS OF SCRIPTURE AND
EXPERIENCE. Dr. Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Vice-President,

Taber Ward Homer Adeney

International Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Dr Richard
Baggett Deats, U S. director, FO R Cosponsored by FO R ,
Maryknoll Mission Institute and OMSC, at Maryknoll, New
York

Mar. 11-15: THE GOSPEL IN CONTEXT: THE WHY AND
HOW OF RESPONSIBLE WITNESS. Dr Charles R Taber,
professor of World Mission, Emmanuel School of Religion,
Johnson City, Tenn., fc:.,.erly with United Bible Societies and
missionary of the Brethren Church in West Africa

Mar. 18-22: RELIEF Ai^ D DEVELOPMENT: MISSION'S
NEW HOT POTATO. Di Tt i Vard, Institute for International
Education, Michigan State University. Cosponsored by World
Concern, World Relief, and World Vision Int'l.

Mar. 26-29: Sinai. "Zion," and "Jubilee”: Three Mode's
of Mission in the Third World. Dr James M Phillips,
associate director, OMSC; former Presbyterian missionary in
Korea and Japan.

Apr. 9-12: Christian Witness in the Turmoil of the Middle
East. Dr Norman A Homer, former associate director, OMSC,
recipient of 1982 Walsh-Price Fellowship for study of the
Middle East churches.

Apr 15-19 "UNREACHED PEOPLES "—AN ANTHRO-
POLOGIST LOOKS AT EVANGELICAL APPROACHES
TO THE UNFINISHED TASK. Dr Miriam Adeney, lecturer
in anthropology and missions. Seattle Pacific University, and
adjunct professor of anthropology and missions, Regent Col-
lege, Vancouver Cosponsored by Christian & Missionary Al-
liance, Liebenzell Mission. OMS International, SIM International,
and Worldwide Evangelization Crusade

Apr. 22-26: EVANGELIZING WORLD CLASS CITIES. Dr
Raymond J. Bakke, Northern Baptist rheological Seminary,
and consultant for urban evangelism, Lausanne Committee for
World Evangelization. Cosponsored by Inter-Varsity Evangel-
ism, Latin America Mission, World Evangelical Fellowship, and
World Vision.

To: Dr. Gerald H. Anderson,

Director

Dr. James M. Phillips,

Associate Director

Overseas Ministries Study Center
Box 2057, Ventnor, New Jersey 08406
Tel: 609-823-6671

Please send OMSC's 1984-85 Announcements
with full residential information and Study
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Address

Publishers of the
International Bulletin of
Missionary Research

Bakke

"History's Lessons for Tomorrow's Mission"

Dr. Samuel H. Moffett, rj /

Dr. Ronald C. White, Jr. -

October 30-November 2, 1984

Co-sponsored by the Center of
Continuing Ed., Princeton Seminary
and OMSC , Ventnor, NJ

Morning-only course beginning Tuesday at
9:30 a.m. and ending Friday at 11:15 a.m.
Each session consists of a 50-min. lecture
followed by a 20-minute coffee break;
then approximately 1 hour for discussion,
questions and reflection.

Worship at 9 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday

It

Dr. Samuel Hugh Moffett has been and Is a very important
and Influential disciple in the spread of the Good News of
Jesus Christ. Dr. Moffett has been a vital part of many areas,
Including missions, ministry, teaching, writing, reconciling,
and preaching.

Most famous for his missionary work in Seoul, Korea and
also in China, Dr. Moffett now teaches missions at Princeton
Theological Seminary in the United States.

Many influences have shaped Dr. Moffett's vision for
ministry. The earliest and most Important influence was his
family. His father was a pioneer missionary who was stoned
in the streets of Pyongyang, Korea when he arrived there many
years ago. He was very respected by all of the Moffett children,
especially the boys. His mother was also a great teacher and
missionary .

Dr. Moffett is one of five brothers who ended up working
for the Church in the United States and abroad. This shows
the influence the family had on the Moffett children. And
yet, his father and mother did not force them into the religious
field. "My father raised us, not wanting his boys to go into
ministry for the wrong reasons, simply to follow the family
tradition. That's not the way to become a minister or a
missionary. "

College and seminary also had strong influences on Sam
Moffett's ministry. He attended Weaton College and later,

Yale University. While at Weaton, he became part of S.P.M.F,

(Student Foreign Missions Fellowship) which helped peak his ^ x
Interest In the mission field. A*** " 4* '

Later he attended Princeton Theological Seminary, where
he learned much and was influenced in many wavs . While at
Princeton as a student, he wrote a missions newsletter which
kept him up on all of the current missions information.

All of his growing up years, as well as his schooling
and early ministry years worked together to influence his
vision for ministry.

Dr. Moffett has relied on several strong sources for
strength and motivation during his ministry. His main source
for this strength and motivation is Scripture. He feels every-
one, and especially a person in ministry, needs a "spiritual
undergirding, not just a rational approach." Through his daily
Bible reading he has received much needed direction, strength,
and motivation,. )

He also talks about the need for prayer as a main source.
Prayer seems to be such an obvious source to him that he treats
it almost like eating or breathing. Without prayer, there would
be no strength or motivation at all.

Fellowship with other Christians was another way to tap
into the support he needed. Many of his closest friends were
also going into professional ministry, and they were able to
give strength to each other.

He also relied heavily on the church as a "support center."

He was upheld by his training in the church as a boy, and his

experiences in the church have carried him throughout his
ministry.

older brother, a minister in a small church in North Dakota

God to the professional ministry while still in college. His

Samuel Hugh Moffett received his first real call from

asked Sam to take over as Assistant Pastor for him as he went , •%

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off to the mission field. Sam agreed to work there for one
summer. After college, the Presbytery asked him to come back.

So, for six months between college and seminary, he continued
his work as Assistant Pastor of this small, struggling church.

He feels that this was his main call into professional ministry.

He also tells about his call to the mission field in
China, which came while he was a student at Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary. The Chairman of the Board, Robert E. Speer
gave what Sam calls a "rousing talk" on the mission field in
China. One quote sticks in Sam Moffett's mind in regards to
the number of unbelievers in China, Speer said that "a person* s
second hand on their watch could tick for nine and a half
years without counting the number of unbelievers in China
alone." This was Samuel Moffett's call to China and missionary
work.

Dr. Moffett has been blessed with a wide variety of gifts if

which have equipped him for the diverse forms of service he

has encountered

One of his favorite gifts is a great love of Christian
literature. The collection of books in his home on the Prince-

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ton Seminary campus would put many small libraries to shame. \

This love of Christian literature has in turn made Samuel
Moffett a very knowledgeable and educated individual.

Along with this love for Christian literature, he has
been given a very good memory. He remembers a large percentage
of all that he reads. This also adds to his vast reservoir of
knowledge .

As well as reading, he also has been given a talent for
writing. Two of his books, Where’er the Sun (1953) and The
Christians of Korea (1962) are important writings on mission-
ary work in China and Korea. Also, he joined with his wife,

Eileer^o write a small book on spiritual life called
Phlllpplansj Joy For an Anxious Age.

Another gift is in the area of communications. He seems
well equipped to get his point across very well to almost any-
one. And^ he’s been able to break the barrier of culture in
working with the Chinese and South Koreans.

Another of his many gifts is that of reconciliation.

He has the ability to bring individuals and groups back to- /V
gether after a breakup or falling out.

-Preaching is also enjoyed very much by Samuel Moffett. '

He's had many opportunities to preach to audiences very small,
as well as very, very large (as was the case with the Korean
churches in Seoul).

One last gift I would add to this long list is the gift

of genuine humility. He cares little about himself, and would

prefer to talk about missions and ministry more than about
his life. In this way he is an example to us all.

As with everyone, Sam Moffett has had to battle with
his own personal weaknesses. The ways he has handled these
weaknesses are worthy of noting.

To start with, he relys on his wife's criticism to call
attention to his weaknesses in a loving way. He says that we
all "need someone to call attention to our weaknesses, not
in a carping way, but in a positive, supporting way." His
wife is also very supporting in the overcoming of these weak-
nesses .

Sam has a very Biblical view on overcoming weaknesses.
According to him, the important thing is to be able to "recog-
nize them and then not defend them, but repent." He feels it's
very important to "try to discipline them out of your life,"
so as not to be trapped by them.

Through the inspiring work of Dr. Samuel Hugh Moffett,
many people have come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and
Savior. For us, his life can be used as an example of a strong
Christian individual and leader. Our world could certainly
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HO'S HELPING PUT IT ALL TOGETHER...

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Robert T. Henderson

• Serving as Co-Chairman of the
PCR’s Program Committee

• Pastor, First Presbyterian Church of
Hendersonville, NC

• Served as Staff Associate for
Evengelism for the Presbyterian
Church U.S.

• Taught evengelism in 39
presbyteries and has lectured in four
theological seminaries

• Author of three books, the latest
Gardens in the Wilderness: The
Adventure of the Church

Robert E. Slocum

• Serving as Co-Chairman of the
PCR’s Program Committee

• President of Polatomic, Inc., a
Texas firm specializing in high
technology products and consulting
services in the field of electro-
optics

• Maintains a high interest enabling
lay ministry

• Leader of numerous Lay Renewal
Conferences in the PCUS

• Served as director of both Faith at
Work and The Laity — A New
Direction

Grady N. Allison, Donald Buteyn, Virgil Cruz, J. Howard Edington, Murray Marshall, Douglas J. Rumford,
R. Jackson Sadler, . . . and a special thank you to Arlo D. Duba and Stanley N. Jones.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

W. R. Yinger

• Serving as chairman of the
Presbyterian Congress on
Renewal

• Former chairman of Nationally
televised Oklahoma Billy
Graham Crusade October, 1983

• Member of the National Board
of Young Life

• Independent Oil and Gas
Producer, Chairman of the
Board for Jay Petroleum Inc.

• Past President of the Oklahoma
Independent Petroleum
Association

B. Clayton Bell

• Serving as Vice-Chairman of the
Presbyterian Congress on Renewal

• Senior Minister of Highland Park
Presbyterian Church in Dallas,
Texas

• Served as moderator of two
presbyteries

• Serving on the Board of King
College, Inc., Bristol, TN, Austin
Presbyterian Theological Seminary,
Austin, TX, and a member of the
Board and Executive Committee of
Christianity Today

• Awarded April, 1981, The Valley
Forge Honor Certificate for
sermon, "A Vision for Those Who
Will See"

Ernest J. Lewis

• Executive Director of
Presbyterian Congress on
Renewal

• Awarded 1984 National
Preacher of the Year by the
General Assembly

• Vice-Chairman,

G.A. Major Mission Fund

• Experienced Television and
Radio Communicator

Roberta H. Winter, Secretary
J. Robert Campbell
Robert T. Henderson
Gary R. Sweeten

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IV. DENOMINATIONAL RENEWAL (PCUSA)

To be conducted as Forums
incorporating National Staff and
Judicatorial Leadership

A. The Great Goals Of The PCUSA

The great ends of the Church. Includes mission statement.
Moderated by Mission Design Committee team.

B. Structural Renewal

1. Presbyteries

2. Synods

3. Boards and Agencies

4. General Assembly

C. National Staff

D. World Mission — Global Directions and Priorities

E. Evangelism

A Study of the Five-Year Plan for Evangelism
A Forum based on the Document

F. The Future Of Our Seminaries

G. Communication Within The System

H. The Laity In God’s Strategy For The Church And The World

Partial List of Speakers and

Cecilio Arrastia - Associate for Resources and Servlr
Evangelism Program, The Program Agency, Presbyterian:
Church (U.S.A.)

F. Dale Bruner - Professor of Religious Studies of
Whitworth College

Gary W. Demarest - Senior pastor of the LaCanada

Presbyterian Church near Pasadena, California

Arlo D. Duba - Dean and Professor of Worship, University

of Dubuque Theological Seminary

James Alexander Forbes, Jr. - Associate Professor of

Worship and Homiletics, Union Theological Seminary, New

York, New York

Leighton Ford - Ordained Presbyterian minister working as
Vice President of the Billy Graham Evengelistic Association
Roberta Hestenes - Ordained Presbyterian minister and
Associate Professor of Spiritual Formation and Discipleship -
Fuller Theological Seminary

Melicent Huneycutt - Director of Christian Growth on
Nurture at Central Presbyterian Church in St. Louis

Bruce Larson - Senior Pastor of the University Presbyterian
Church in Seattle, Washington

James I. McCord - Chancellor of the post-doctoral Center
of Theological Inquiry at Princeton Theological Seminary
Samuel Hugh Moffett - Henry Winters Luce, Professor of
Ecumenics and Mission at Princeton Theological Seminary

Lloyd John Ogilvie - Pastor to First Presbyterian Church
of Hollywood, California

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The Wheaton College Crusaders, 1984 NCAA Division III National Soccer Champions, left to right Mark MacDonald, Peter Felske Tom Schmidt Dan
Matthews, David Green, Chris Hagemann, Ed Meadors. Brian Weld, Tom Engslrom, John Searle, David Kouwe. Tim Daniels, Andrew Taylor, Cameron
Roxburgh, Randy Felder, Steve Shannon, Paul Helseth, Jamie Brabenec, Coach Joe Bean, John Page. Not pictured: David Wolf

The 1984 NCAA Division III Championship closes off Wheaton's first 50 years of soccer.

Capstone Season

by Ted Carlson '8 1

m Hollywood scriptwriter would
have a hard time coming up
J M with a better scenario for the
men's fall soccer season. Twenty-
three straight games without a loss —
following an opening game defeat —
culminated in the team's first NCAA
Division III National Championship.
The victory capped off the first 50
years of Wheaton soccer.

The Crusaders opened their 50th
season with a 1-0 loss at the hands
of Midwest Metropolitan Soccer

February 1985

Conference — rival Northern Illinois
University. The defeat was the first for
Wheaton in four years of conference
play. The loss ultimately cost the
Crusaders the league championship.

The team rebounded from the loss
with 1 7 straight victories before
ending the regular season with a pair
of 1-1 ties. Included in the victory
string was a stirring 5-3 overtime
victory over Wisconsin-Green Bay in
which Junior Andrew Taylor scored
four goals. Wheaton fought back from

2-0 and 3-2 deficits to put the game
into overtime. The Crusaders clinched
the game on a goal by Dave Wolf
'86.

Wheaton faced Rockford College in
the opening round of the playoffs just
one week after battling the Regents to
a 1-1 tie. Ninety minutes of regulation
time and 20 minutes of overtime
failed to produce a goal for either
team, necessitating a penalty kick
shoot-out to decide the game. Taylor,
Wolf and Steve Shannon '86 scored

Carlos Vergara '82

Carlos Vergara 82

CAPSTONE SEASON, Continued.

Coach loe Bean (center) shows deep emotion
and assistant coach Dick Erickson '72. He was

Wheaton Forward Steve Shannon '86 battles Brandeis University’s Dov Bulka for possession of the ball

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before Rockford could get on the
board. Junior Pete Felske wrapped
up the shoot-out and the game for
Wheaton with his penalty kick.

Mark MacDonald '86 scored both
Wheaton goals in a 2-1 victory over
Washington University (St. Louis) in
the Regional Championship game.
The defense allowed the Bears only
three shots on goal, all in the first
half of play.

In the national semi-finals,
Wheaton exploded for three second-
half goals against Kean College (New
Jersey) to win 3-0. Taylor opened the

Wheaton Alumni

as his winning team is honored by NCAA officials and appreciated by Wheaton fans Coach Bean is flanked by trainer Roberta Kuechler
also assisted by Bret Hall 79, professional soccer player with the Cleveland Force. Bean was named NCAA Division III Coach of the Year

scoring one minute and thirty-eight
seconds after intermission and assisted
on goals by Wolf and MacDonald.

rhree thousand fans on East
McCully Field watched
Wheaton and Brandeis square
off for the national championship.

The Crusaders scored first. Senior
Dave Kouwe blasted a shot past the
Judges' defensive wall after a
Wheaton free kick. Brandeis tied up
the game before halftime and the two
teams remained deadlocked for the
rest of regulation time and two ten-

minute overtimes before moving into
sudden death overtime.

Five minutes into sudden death,
Taylor went after a loose ball in front
of the Brandeis goal and was tripped
in desparation by the goalie. Kouwe
calmly put in his second goal of the
game on the ensuing penalty kick and
the national championship belonged
to Wheaton, 2-1 .

m y-ouwe and Taylor were repeat
selections on the All-America
Mm team and were joined on the
All-Midwest squad by Wolf and Tim
Daniels '85. All four players were

named to the All-Conference team
along with Freshman Goalie Chris
Hagemann. (Chris set a school record
this season with 1 3 shut-outs.)

"This season is the culmination of
49 years of commitment to Wheaton
soccer," said Coach Joe Bean. "We
had the privilege of representing a
lot of former coaches and players
in the climactic finish of a national
championship. It was evident that
this team was also representing Jesus
Christ with their soccer talent — and
that He should get the credit for their
success. "•

February 1985

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Carlos Vergara '82

Ray Smith '54

'77 vvne7,n s ea",esf soccer P,a^s present to celebrate SO years of Crusader soccer. Left to right, back row; Parker Woolmington 19. Sam
Moffett 38, Ed McCausland '39, Howard Fischer '38. and Bradford Steiner '39, members of the original 1935 team, and Urn Young 19 of the '38- 39
team. Front row; Marjorie Lohn McCausland '39, Florence McDuffie McKellin '26, First Coach Urn McKellm '35, Eleanor Young.

Former coaches and players— and the current squad— gather to celebrate 50 years of Wheaton soccer

Celebrating 50 Years

On December 7 over 300

guests attended the Wheaton
Soccer 50th Anniversary
Banquet. Former players and
coaches — and the current squad —
gathered to celebrate "A Tradition of
Excellence.”

On hand were five members of
Wheaton's first soccer squad, the
1935 team: Howard Fischer '38, Ed
McCausland '39, Sam Moffett '38,
Bradford Steiner '39 and Parker
Woolmington '39. The team's founder
and first coach, Jim McKellin '35,
also attended.

Former coach Bob Baptista '48 was
master of ceremonies for an evening
that included a phone message from
another ex-coach, Cliff McCrath '58,
who was with his Seattle Pacific
University team preparing for their
NCAA Division II soccer
championship game the next day.
Members of past conference and
regional championship teams were
recognized, as were former coaches
McKellin, Baptista, Dave De Vries '49
and Wes Morris '47, M.A. '52.

Howard Moffet '39, LL.D. '68, a
high scoring forward on the 1935-38

teams, was inducted into the Crusader
Club Hall of Honor in absentia with
his son Howard, Jr. '65, and brother
Sam receiving the award in his stead.

The 1984 National Championship
team was also honored. Wheaton
President Richard Chase read a
motion by the board of trustees that
commended the team and
commissioned championship rings for
the players.

The finale of the evening was a
multi-media show highlighting the
first 50 years of Wheaton soccer.*

by Ted Carlson ' 8 1

inSf Wheaton Alumni

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