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1 Adventist Heritage Center From: Sent: To: Subject: Center for Adventist Research Monday, February 15, :32 PM Adventist Heritage Center FW: Clifford Goldstein: Stubble for the Lake of Fire - Top 5 Stories This Week From: Adventist Review [mailto:evan=adventistreview.org@mail115.suw13.rsgsv.net] On Behalf Of Adventist Review Sent: Monday, February 15, :08 PM To: Center for Adventist Research Subject: Clifford Goldstein: Stubble for the Lake of Fire - Top 5 Stories This Week 1

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3 Login Search Subscribe Menu Adventist volunteers Tiffany Neil and Doug McCoy serving haystack at the Crosswalk shelter in Spokane, Washington. (GleanerNow) UPDATE: Services Planned for Two Andrews University Students Killed in Automobile Accident Two Andrews University Students Killed in Automobile Accident Interfaith Engagement and Faithfulness to the Three Angels Messages Adventist Students Honor Sabbath at Peruvian Games, Still Win Silver Medal Why Adventists Participate in UN and Ecumenical Meetings 108 Years of Adventist Scholarship and Service Two new books honor veteran academics Johnston a SUBSCRIBE+NEWSLETTER+ IN THIS ISSUE+NEWS+ARCHIVES+ READER RESPONSE+MEDIA PARTNERS+ SCREENING ROOM+GRACENOTES+ PHOTO SUBMISSIONS

4 Haystacks Prove a Hit With Homeless Teens Volunteers serve the Adventist favorite at a shelter in Spokane, Washington. POSTED FEBRUARY 15, 2016, North Pacific GleanerNow e love haystacks is a common remark heard at a U.S. shelter for street teens on the first Tuesday of every month. W For the past 25 years, staff members from the Seventh-day Adventist Church s Upper Columbia Conference have been sharing Christ s love by taking a monthly meal downtown to serve the roughly 20 street youth and their adult mentors at the Crosswalk shelter in Spokane, Washington. And this classic U.S. Adventist entree of vegetables, cheese, and beans piled on corn chips is proving as popular at Crosswalk as it is in church fellowship halls. Nutritious meals are an important staple of need for our kids, John Robertson, Crosswalk s program manager, said with a smile. And we love haystacks. The Adventist Church is among several denominations that provide food to Crosswalk, a ministry of the nonprofit organization Volunteers of America that mentors teens who have fallen through the cracks many of whom live on the streets because of abuse at home or after dropping out of school. Crosswalk provides education toward obtaining the equivalent of a high-school diploma and life-coaching, as well as offering an overnight drop-in shelter. Tiffany Neil, Darin Patzer, and Doug McCoy posing with a plate of haystacks at Crosswalk. (GleanerNow) When I first started here, the kids would have to leave the shelter to find food then come back for their afternoon education tutoring and other services, said Ken Jernberg, Crosswalk s head teacher for the past 30 years. But with all of these churches helping provide meals, the kids' days no longer have to be interrupted. The Upper Columbia Conference, which has its headquarters in Spokane, has passed haystacks duties from department to department over the years, but the monthly outreach has continued without interruption. GLOW tracts are also shared together with the meals. Staff members of KEEH-FM, the Adventist-operated Positive Life Radio station in Spokane, hosted a weekly group for more than a year at the shelter, with five to seven teens attending regularly. The teens played games, answered trivia questions for prizes, and watched Matthew Videos, a series of DVDs about Jesus.

5 The teens were not the only people affected by the outreach. A shelter volunteer started attending church because of the friendship that he and his wife made with KEEH volunteers. The teens often appear rough on the exterior, and their language can be coarse, but Adventist volunteers said they have gradually realized that many are just hungering for encouragement, kindness, and a chance to experience healthy relationships. I can t imagine some of the circumstances these kids have been through, but I am happy there is a program they can choose to participate in and empower themselves, said Tiffany Neil, the current meal coordinator and office manager at KEEH-FM. The monthly Crosswalk meal we prepare is helping provide the stability these individuals need to thrive. As the popular quote often attributed to Francis of Assisi says, Preach the gospel, and if necessary use words. Upper Columbia Conference staff members are wordlessly sharing the gospel through their love, their time, and, yes, haystacks. News & Features Subscriber Access About Departments Resources Current Adventist News Download The Adventist World Week of Prayer Edition Online Exclusives Gracenotes Events Subscriptions Renew Account Forgotten Password Report Trouble Update Mailing Address Issue Archives Our Roots and Mission Staff Writer's Guidelines Advertising Kit Adventist World Reader Response Photo Galleries Prayer Requests Partners Contact Free Newsletter Photo Submissions Downloads Sunset Calendar Church Locator RSS Feed Advertising Questions Copyright 2016, Adventist Review. All rights reserved worldwide.

6 Login Search Subscribe Menu East Timor first graders displaying six classroom bibles donated by an Adventist school in California. (Stephanie Haddad / SSD) UPDATE: Services Planned for Two Andrews University Students Killed in Automobile Accident Two Andrews University Students Killed in Automobile Accident Interfaith Engagement and Faithfulness to the Three Angels Messages Adventist Students Honor Sabbath at Peruvian Games, Still Win Silver Medal Why Adventists Participate in UN and Ecumenical Meetings Oakwood University, Adventist-owned Historica Held Founder s Day celebrations, inaugurated biblica SUBSCRIBE+NEWSLETTER+ IN THIS ISSUE+NEWS+ARCHIVES+ READER RESPONSE+MEDIA PARTNERS+ SCREENING ROOM+GRACENOTES+ PHOTO SUBMISSIONS

7 East Timor s First Adventist School Seeks Teachers Student missionaries are needed as enrollment surges. POSTED FEBRUARY 15, 2016 he first Seventh-day Adventist school in East Timor is seeking teachers after an unexpected surge in enrollment. T The Timor-Leste Adventist International School, the first Adventist elementary school on the small Southeast Asian country bordered by Indonesia, had planned to enroll about a dozen children when it opened last September. But it now has 35 students and a waiting list for more. We hoped and prayed for students, but with limited resources and temporary classrooms, we wondered how many people would choose to register their children, principal Mai-Rhea Whitty said. So teachers put up signs all around East Timor s capital, Dili, and handed out information at a nearby shopping center before the first day of school on Sept. 28. The phone calls started to pour in. With so much interest, we realized we would need to open a second English preparation class or we would find ourselves turning students away, Whitty said in a statement. Stepping out in faith, we made plans to offer a second class and [now] both classes are almost filled to the limit. Read First Adventist School Opens in East Timor A kindergarten class taught by Janette Lonoza is the largest in the school. (Mai-Rhea Whitty / SSD) A view of the Tim SSD) English is needed to enter first grade, which is only taught in English. The school currently offers only preschool, first grade, and English preparatory classes. It hopes to add second grade next year and additional grades in the following years, allowing it to become a full-fledged elementary and secondary school. With continued growth expected, the school faces a teacher shortage next year. As we look forward to the next school year, we will need to add at least a grade two class to enable our current students to move forward, Whitty said. We would also like to offer our multi-grade class to the community by making it a full-day class covering all the subjects. To make all this possible, we will need two to three new teachers to cover all the classes. The school, a recipient of the Thirteenth Sabbath Offering that will be collected by Adventist churches worldwide on Sept. 26, hopes to recruit student missionaries to meet those needs. The Adventist Church has struggled to rebuild in East Timor, also known as Timor- Leste, since the country gained independence in Twenty-five years of war had left

8 only six members out of nearly 100. Today the church s Timor-Leste Mission has two ordained pastors, a main church in Dili, four church companies, and seven branch Sabbath Schools. Timor-Leste Mission is part of the Southern Asia-Pacific Division, which has 1.2 million members in 14 countries. To apply to teach at the Timor-Leste Adventist International School, visit the school s website tais.edu.tl/support or the Adventist Volunteers website for the elementary teachers or kindergarten and ESL teachers. News & Features Subscriber Access About Departments Resources Current Adventist News Download The Adventist World Week of Prayer Edition Online Exclusives Gracenotes Events Subscriptions Renew Account Forgotten Password Report Trouble Update Mailing Address Issue Archives Our Roots and Mission Staff Writer's Guidelines Advertising Kit Adventist World Reader Response Photo Galleries Prayer Requests Partners Contact Free Newsletter Photo Submissions Downloads Sunset Calendar Church Locator RSS Feed Advertising Questions Copyright 2016, Adventist Review. All rights reserved worldwide.

9 Login Search Subscribe Menu An aerial view of Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee. (SAU) UPDATE: Services Planned for Two Andrews University Students Killed in Automobile Accident Two Andrews University Students Killed in Automobile Accident Interfaith Engagement and Faithfulness to the Three Angels Messages Adventist Students Honor Sabbath at Peruvian Games, Still Win Silver Medal Why Adventists Participate in UN and Ecumenical Meetings 108 Years of Adventist Scholarship and Service Two new books honor veteran academics Johnston a SUBSCRIBE+NEWSLETTER+ IN THIS ISSUE+NEWS+ARCHIVES+ READER RESPONSE+MEDIA PARTNERS+ SCREENING ROOM+GRACENOTES+ PHOTO SUBMISSIONS

10 Andrew McChesney News editor, Adventist Review David C. Smith Named President of Southern Adventist University He replaces Gordon Bietz, who will retire in May. POSTED FEBRUARY 14, 2016 S outhern Adventist University has chosen former Union College president David C. Smith to succeed long-serving president Gordon Bietz at the end of the current academic year. The Collegedale, Tennessee-based university made the announcement after conducting a 10-month nationwide search. On Feb. 10, Southern Adventist University s board of trustees unanimously voted to formally invite David C. Smith, PhD, to serve as the school s 26th president, it said on its Facebook page on Friday. After much prayer, Smith has accepted the position. Smith worked as professor and chair at Southern s English department for 17 years in the 1980s and 1990s, leaving in 1998 to serve as president of Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska, for 13 years. He returned in 2011 as senior pastor for Southern s campus church. Before his appointment as president, Bietz also served as pastor of the Collegedale Church. David C. Smith (SAU) I am honored to follow Gordon Bietz, who has provided Southern with 19 years of distinguished leadership, Smith said. I look forward to partnering with God and all who are associated with Southern to see how He will make a special school even more special. Bietz said Sunday that his overall impression of Smith was very positive. He has experience and a pastor s heart, he said by . Lisa Clark Diller, a history professor at Southern Adventist University, described Smith as a sharp thinker and good communicator. He is a servant-leader, whose good humor and strong communication skills are effective for building community in the organizations he leads, said Diller, who took classes from Smith as an undergraduate student at Southern. He shares his own spiritual journey with candor and that has helped create a thriving culture of prayer and Christian testimony. She said his ability to teach undergraduates effectively is the same skill he uses to create trust and shared passion within the entities he has led. These are the same gifts of imagination and sharp thinking he will bring to bear on the challenges of leading a university in the climate of higher education that we all operate in helping us make the case for Christian education on a residential campus, she said. Bietz announced in April 2015 that he would retire in May 2016, saying he felt that the time was right because that the university was in a strong position going forward. Enrollment has doubled to more than 3,100 students since Bietz took the helm in 1997, and the university has implemented nearly $80 million in construction projects, including student apartment complexes, a wellness center, and a new nursing building.

11 The university, founded in 1892, also saw its budget doubled under Bietz and its academic programs, particularly its graduate studies program, have grown. While the university offered just a few graduate classes in 1997, today it has 13 master s degrees and a doctorate degree in nursing practice. Bietz told the Adventist Review last April that his immediate plans in retirement were to spend more time with his family and grandchildren. He said Sunday: I will be doing some traveling, writing, and working with AACU certainly enough to keep me busy. AACU is the Association of Adventist Colleges and Universities. Read Retiring Southern President Has Advice for Successor Smith s appointment comes as several Adventist institutions of higher education are seeing major changes at the top. Last month, Asia-Pacific International University in Thailand appointed veteran Adventist educator and administrator Danny Rantung as its new president, and the University of the Southern Caribbean in Trinidad and Tobago announced that it had begun a search for a new president. Andrews University, the Adventist Church s leading university, based in Berrien Springs, Michigan, is seeking a new president after Niels-Erik Andreasen unveiled plans last August to retire. A date for Smith to assume the presidency at Southern will be announced later, the university said. Though an exact start date has yet to be determined, Smith looks forward to working alongside president Bietz in the months leading up to his retirement, it said. Bietz said he expected the transition phase to last a month or so. News & Features Subscriber Access About Departments Resources Current Adventist News Download The Adventist World Week of Prayer Edition Online Exclusives Gracenotes Events Subscriptions Renew Account Forgotten Password Report Trouble Update Mailing Address Issue Archives Our Roots and Mission Staff Writer's Guidelines Advertising Kit Adventist World Reader Response Photo Galleries Prayer Requests Partners Contact Free Newsletter Photo Submissions Downloads Sunset Calendar Church Locator RSS Feed Advertising Questions Copyright 2016, Adventist Review. All rights reserved worldwide.

12 Login Search Subscribe Menu UPDATE: Services Planned for Two Andrews University Students Killed in Automobile Accident Two Andrews University Students Killed in Automobile Accident Interfaith Engagement and Faithfulness to the Three Angels Messages Adventist Students Honor Sabbath at Peruvian Games, Still Win Silver Medal Why Adventists Participate in UN and Ecumenical Meetings 108 Years of Adventist Scholarship and Service Two new books honor veteran academics Johnston a SUBSCRIBE+NEWSLETTER+ IN THIS ISSUE+NEWS+ARCHIVES+ READER RESPONSE+MEDIA PARTNERS+ SCREENING ROOM+GRACENOTES+ PHOTO SUBMISSIONS

13 Bill Knott is the editor and executive publisher of Adventist Review. The Flag in the Window hen bitter wind is stinging my eyes, it s hard to make me smile. W But the irony of a Paintball Wizard bus parked beside the most unpainted house in town made me grin in spite of the chill. The old home on this frozen side street would be blessed by any of the colors advertised. Other colors draped in a shaded window made the moment even colder, though. Behind discarded toys and tools, a faded Confederate battle flag signaled loyalties unusual in this New England town. One hundred fifty years ago the local abolitionists who sent their sons to die in the fight against slavery would have demanded that it be taken down, that the house displaying it be locked and shuttered, that its owner answer for sympathizing with the rebellion. They fully understood the message of a flag that witnessed a half million deaths. And I suspect the current owner does as well. It is, as Americans often say, a free country, by which they summarize First Amendment free-speech rights, including the personal display of flags and symbols deemed offensive. Constitutionally protected liberties permit a Nazi sympathizer to march publicly through a Jewish Chicago suburb or Confederate flags to flutter over a million homes. But the political freedom to display historic symbols of repression ought never be confused with the moral appropriateness of doing so. One and the same thing can be legally permissible and morally awful, and Adventists have an old tradition of speaking truth to power in a culture in which the distinction must often still be made. Let s say it clearly: there are many things symbols, words, structures, even flags incompatible with the faith of Jesus just because they invoke the history of abuse or the evil ideologies that deem one race superior to others. Some Christians claim that they mean nothing sinister by using them. But ask those receiving the message of a flag synonymous with 140 years of lynchings, the Ku Klux Klan, and the denial of basic human rights. Ask the One and the same thing can be legally permissible and morally awful. members of the synagogue where walls were spray-painted with red swastikas if they got the meaning of the graffiti. All will tell you they did. American culture is no longer either naive or innocent, if it ever was, and neither are those affixing their window decals or wielding their noxious paint cans. The earliest Seventh-day Adventists were unequivocal about the Bible s insistence on racial equality, both now and in the world to come. They confronted their culture with the certainty of being unmistakably aligned with heaven. In these pages 160 years ago fearless authors denounced Supreme Court decisions, acts of Congress, and even U.S. presidents for abandoning the sacred truths enshrined in the nation s founding documents that all are created equal; that all possess God-given and unalienable rights; that governments exist to ensure full access, fair treatment, and yes, even happiness. That vigorous commitment dimmed across the decades, until in many places American Adventism a century after its founding was as segregated and race-stratified as the culture. Sabbath by Sabbath we blithely sang the classic hymn We Stand in Deep Repentance, all unaware of what we really needed. Sadly, from Ellen White s death in 1915 until at least the 1960s, this movement largely took its racial valuing from American society instead of from God s Word. Fifty years later we are still learning what repentance means why it must transform our vocabulary, our conversations, our processes, and our structures. When we are willing to ask the aggrieved and mistreated what fairness looks like to them and live with and through their answers we will have made repentance real, and honored God by truly honoring each other.

14 This isn t a conversation we can wish away or hurry through, and we will have hard moments on the way. But let s get started, certain that heaven will yet teach us how to talk and listen to each other. News & Features Subscriber Access About Departments Resources Current Adventist News Download The Adventist World Week of Prayer Edition Online Exclusives Gracenotes Events Subscriptions Renew Account Forgotten Password Report Trouble Update Mailing Address Issue Archives Our Roots and Mission Staff Writer's Guidelines Advertising Kit Adventist World Reader Response Photo Galleries Prayer Requests Partners Contact Free Newsletter Photo Submissions Downloads Sunset Calendar Church Locator RSS Feed Advertising Questions Copyright 2016, Adventist Review. All rights reserved worldwide.

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17 Stubble for the Lake of Fire By Clifford Goldstein East Timor s First Adventist School Seeks Teachers Haystacks Prove a Hit With Homeless Teens 4

18 David C. Smith Named President of Southern Adventist University The Flag in the Window Welcome to ARtv Copyright 2016 Adventist Review, All rights reserved. You are receiving this because you opted in at our website. Our mailing address is: Adventist Review Old Columbia Pike Silver Spring, MD Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these s? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list 5