CIIURCH of GOD

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Volume 1, Issue 16 August 15, 1962

Work Accelerates At Furious Pace

Back Row-from left to right: Mr. HomerC. F. Smith, Mr. Thomas Schattke, Mr. Wil­liam Kromer.Front Row: Mrs. Voneva Denham, JoyceM. Davis, Mrs. Dina Schattke, Mrs. DianaKromer, Mrs. Rebecca Manuel, Mrs. MarieCarringgon.

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Baptized in ChicagoI say unto you, that likewise joy

shall be in heaven over one sinner thatrepenteth, more than over ninety andnine just persons , which need no re­pentenance.

God's Work Expands;

Personnel ReassignedMr. Gerald Waterhouse received ur­

gent word to report to Headquarters forfinal instruction before embarking forthe Philippine Islands to oversee estab­lishing of the new office in Manilla. Mr.Longuskie will rendezvous with Mr. Wa­terhouse to help lay the groundwork forthe office that will fill the multiple hun­dreds of requests for literature promptedby the ads now appearing in the PHILIP­PINES FREE PRESS.

Mr . Arthur Craig, who was leading abaptismal tour, received word to immedi­ately take over the pastorate of the Oppand Montgomery, Alabama churches va­cated by Mr. Waterhouse. Mr. Hal Bairdthen replaced Mr. Craig as leader of thetour covering the southeast, and to con­tinue the whirlwind pace, Mr. John Baldtook over the pastorate of the St. Louisand Bloomington churches in place ofMr. Baird!

Three more Ambassador graduates arebeing transferred "down under" for thrill­ing and challenging new assignments.Slated to depart for Australia in a fewshort weeks arc Messrs . Bill Myers,Leroy Cole and Miss Jessie Emmet. Mr.Myers will replace Mr. Frank Longuskiein the office, Mr. Cole will double in theoffice and also in visiting, and Miss Em­mett will be the new receptionist andsecretary to Mr. Wayne Cole.

On the other side of the world, Ambas­sador College, U. K. , awaits the arrivalof Mr. and Mrs. Dart, (formerly sched­uled to open the Indianapolis church,) toits teaching staff for this fall.

Meanwhile two new radio stations havebeen added to the log-KMAC, San

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NewsSouth BendBy R. Van Siooten

The age of small flocks seems to be athing of the past with God's work con­tinu ing to double about every two andone half years.

At South Bend , God is adding thosewho are being saved to His Church weekby week . New faces are a weekly blessingas the Church continues to grow .

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The BOOMING Work of God is shooting ahead at a new dy­namic pace! Astounding growth, challenging assignments, a newforeign office opened, more radio stations added and plans to ex­pand into READER'S DIGEST in SIXTEEN different countries aremarking the new stepped-up pace!

Skyrocketing mail receipts flashed pastthe first half of 1962 with a BIG 64 %increase! The total number of letters re­ceived for the first six months of 1962was 593,212! While the Work of Godraces ahead with phenomenal growth,our Pan American Advertising Agencyreported that other religious work s aredown 15% and MORE for the sameperiod!

Good news! Big news! God's Workthrusts forward into India, Africa, theMiddle East and Europe.

The contract has been signed for open­ing an office in Dusseldorf, Germany. Asuite of five rooms will be ready foroccupancy within a few weeks. Fivemore rooms are available as an additionwhen required .

One of the German-born students fromAmbassador College in Pasadena, Mr.Frank Schnee will mo ve to G erm any withhis wife and two children to take chargeof the office there. This ph ase of thework will be directed from the BricketWood office by Mr. Gerhard Marx, alsoGerman-born and a graduate of Ambas­sador College.

To step up the spiritual Gospel offen­sive on Germany, there will be a monthlypurchase of two pages each issue in theGerman edition of Reader's Digest andalso the Au strian edition-a tot al circula­tion of 1,015 ,000 copies. Thi s meansactually betw een three million and fivemillion readers.

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Man has made 32,600,000 laws andhasn't yet improved on the Ten Com­mandments.

Dick AlexanderVernon Johnson

. Martin FilippelloElisha CrimJohn FreelMaceo HamptonCornelia Henderson

Circulation

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..., JfewoEditor-in-Chief Dean BlackwellAdvisors . . . . . Raymond Roenspies

Wilbur BallPhillip Fowler

Editor . . . . . . . . .. Wilbur BallNews Editor Kenneth EllisCopy Editor Edward Rudicel

REPORTERS

Fred MancewiczRoland VanSlooten

Kenneth MayClarence SvehlaEdwin MarrsElaine TkachEmma Dayton

Gene MadisonHope Brassine

Art John MoorePhotographer Robert Einersen

General StaffJack Smoot Grace Sienkiewicz

Winifred Keough - DwyerAddress all correspondence to the

Editor.Notify us immediately of any change

of address.Published monthly by

Chicago. South Bend and MilwaukeeSpokesman Club's

Circulation over 700

Combined.Spokesman Banquet

The joint meeting-banquet of theChicago Spokesman Clubs had been along time in the planning but this happyaffair, which has become an annual one,was held in Wozniak's hall on Sundaynight July 29, 1962. Approximately 100men from the Saturday night, Sundaymorning, Sunday evening and Tuesdaynight groups arrived by 7 o'clock to feastand take part in the occasion which en­ables the four sections of the club tobe reunited.

Beautiful maidens served a sumptuousmeal prepared in the kitchen by mem­bers of the elite Sunday morning Ladiesclass. It is feared many more memberswould have taken more active parts inthe meeting if they had not been en­grossed in tasting and testing the variousdishes. The bachelors seemed particularlyimpressed!

The awards for the evening went to:Mr. Ackerson for the "Most EffectiveSpeaker"; Dale Schurter for "Most Im­proved Speaker"; Mr. Perez for " BestEvaluator"; Mr. Gene Carter for "BestComment" in the Topics session; andthe Topicmaster was rated "Good," theToastmaster "Excellent" for their per­formances. Unhappily, many men re­ceived whitewash bru shes symbolizingfailures to fulfill their various responsi­bilities in the club . Scenes from thebanquet are pictured below .

Three Graduates

OrdainedSabbath, June 9, was filled with great

surprise, sincere happiness and deep joyas Mr. Ted Armstrong called to the plat­form Mr. Dean Wilson, Mr. ArthurCraig, and Mr. Bill Winner to be or­dained as Preaching Elders in the veryWork of Jesus Christ! All three men hadjust been graduated from AmbassadorCollege the preceding day and the entireHeadquarters congregation rejoiced intheir ordinations.

Bible Story BookExplodes Retord

The initial response for Volume II ofthe BIBLE STORY has been fantastic!Mail receipts have exploded! Existingrecords were wiped out by an avalancheof mail that threw the Mail ReceivingDepartment (Pasadena) tens of thousandsof letters behind!

A record week of 65,395 letters totallyeclipsed the old mark of 34,266 set inMay, 1961. The old week-day high of6,176 went by the wayside on Monday,June 18, when 16,767 letters pouredinto the office! A record month is alsoin the making with a possible 160,000letters!

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soum BEND (Cont'd)

little of South Bend's Church history.Mr. Dean Blackwell started a Bible Studyin March of 1961, with seventy-five inattendance. After about four months ofBible studies, Church services began withabout one hundred fifty in attendance.By the third week there were two hun­dred and twenty! In the fall of 1961,Mr. Frank McCrady moved to SouthBend to feed the newly formed Churchand rapid growth continued; by the firstof the year as many as two hundred andfifty were attending. Following the minis­terial conference in January 1962 a newminister (to this area) was sent to SouthBend.

Mr. and Mrs. Lester McColm andtheir two fine teen-aged children arrivedat South Bend, and moved into theapartment vacated by Mr. McCrady.

Mr. McColm's spiritual begettal oc-

curred in the Pacific Northwest wherehis parents had moved during the thirtiesof dust bowl fame. This was a "Grapesof Wrath" exodus from North Dakota.

Mrs. McColm was called first, causingmany a stormy day at the McColm home.God soon opened Mr. McColm's eyes,and I believe the first scripture he readwas-"Whatever you set your hand todo, do with your might" (Ecc. 9: 10). Intwo years he was ordained a deacon,and under the tutorship of Mr. RaymondCole he was soon giving sermonettes,and in 1961 he was ordained a LocalElder. The McColm family was nextmoved to Salem, Oregon to assist in theChurch there, and in the fall of 1961the entire family moved to Pasadenawhere Mr. McColm attended Ambassa­dor College for one semester.

Since their arrival at South Bend theChurch has continued to grow at an ac­celerated pace with as many as threehundred and eighty-five attending Sab­bath services.

With brethren scattered over threestates, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, Mr.McColm found it impossible to counselas he had hoped, especially with prospec­tive letters coming from Pasadena at therate of one per day.

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The answer was evident-group coun­sels on Bible Studies would help. TheGlen Keeley family graciously openedtheir home (located near Gobles, Michi­gan,) to cover South Western Michiganand to date the highest attendance hasbeen seventy-seven. To help the Indianaand Ohio area a Bible Study was inaugu­rated at Fort Wayne with up to sixty­three attending. To help those farthernorth in Michigan a Bible Study has beenconducted at the home of Mr. NeilSkinner, west of Shelby, Michigan.

The training of leaders for the Churchand the home, as well as for the comingKingdom of God, has not been neglected.The night of May 6 brought a group ofthrilled men to the plush Pick OliverHotel for their first Spokesman Clubmeeting. After several meetings it becameevident a second club was needed.

For the Sunday morning club Mr.Joseph Tkach was imported from Chi­cago to take over the duties of President.Other Club officers are-Vice-president,Mr. James Hambrock; Secretary, Mr. H.Huber; Treasurer, Mr. J. Buckley andSergeant at Arms, Mr. G. Keeley.

The Sunday evening Club is presidedover by your writer, Mr. R. Van Slooten.The other officers are-Vice-president,Mr. R. Johnson; Secretary, Mr. J. Moore;Treasurer, Mr. J. Hosterman; Sergeant-at-Arms, Mr. G. Johnson.

Mr. Marrs and FamilySent To Meridian

by Elisha Crim

The Chicago Church has lost one ofits Negro deacons. At the request of theministers, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Marrsand their three boys Edwin (four), Mi­chael (two) and Jonathan (six weeks)have moved to Meridian, Mississippi. Mr.Marrs will be working under Mr. ArthurCraig, helping him to serve the hunger­ing, thirsting and widely-scattered Negrobrethren in that area.

A farewell party was given in theirhonor at the home of Mr. and Mrs.Maceo Hampton. There was an abun­dance of delicious snacks and fruitpunch, along with music, dancing andgames. These created an atmosphere ofgaiety and joy. But an air of sorrow andinner regret could be felt because theywould no longer be with us. But even inthe midst of this, all of us felt elated andthankful that God had selected one fromamong us to assist in serving our breth­ren in the South.

tlewJ 8,.ie(JBy Fred Mancewicz

• There was great joy when the newsbroke-Dale Schurter, Karl Beyersdor­fer, Karen Jauch and Lorene Fellowsare slated to attend Ambassador Collegethis fall. Also to attend are William To­pash and Artis Thomas from the SouthBend Church.

• Deaconess Viola Peets has moved,with her husband to Milwaukee. Mr.Peets is now employed by Mr. Ochs, ofthe Milwaukee Church.

• Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.Richard Plache on the birth of theirnew daughter.

• A young people's committee has beenformed to aid in coordinating their activi­ties. It is composed of Bill May, Ed Rudi­eel, Ihor Karpowycz, Sally Marshall, andAndrea Beyersdorfer. Much has beendone to provide wholesome activities forour single young men and women.

• A Bible Study is held every otherSunday in Rockford, Illinois at the Sing­ing Society, 15th Avenue and 7th St.Scheduled meetings are on August 5thand 19th; September 2nd, 16th, and 30th,starting at 2 P.M.

Australia - Part 5Early in March an unprecedented

event occurred-three a r r i val s in oneday! Gene Hughes and wife with son,John, arrived at Mascot from the U.S.just a few minutes before Mr. Water­house's return from Manila, followed bythe arrival of Mr. Portune, a flight be­hind him.

Mr. Hughes arrived as the Work ex­panded to become the Business Managerof the office under Mr. Waterhouse. Thetwo ministers had rendezvoused in thePhilippines to survey the Work there.Under Mr. Ortiguero's direction thePhilippines showed great possibilities foradding more radio stations as God directs,and conversion of many people there.Groups scattered through the Islands ob­served the Sabbath and Holy Days.

Then came news of the proposed ex-

pansion to Africa, with Mr. Waterhouseleaving Australia to direct this new of­fice.

Sunday, 7 January 1962, Mr. TonyHammer stopped in Sydney while on hisway to the Ministerial Conference. Dayslater it was announced that Mr. Water­house was not to return to Australia, andthat Mr. Wayne Cole was officially thedirector placed in charge of the Austra­lian Work. This event brings us up tothe present. Since its beginning the workthat God began here in Australiahas taken tremendous leaps and shownphenomenal growth. A great deal of re­spect goes to the first director sent here-Mr. Gerald D. Waterhouse, for hisdiligence in doing God's will. For his partin this growth, we salute him, but as hehimself would be the first to admit, thiswork is just "beginning to get ready tocommence to start". So while we can re­joice in what has been done, let's at thesame time set our hands to the plow thatwe have been given.

WORK ACCELERATES (Cont'd)

It has been arranged to purchase twopages every month in the FRENCH edi­tion of Reader's Digest, probably byearly autumn.

More news. Plans have been made toplace double-page messages in the fol­lowing editions of Reader's Digest, intheir own native languages in each case:Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, SouthAfrica, India, and the Arabic languageedition reaching a large percentage ofthe literate and e due ate d peoples ofEgypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Is­rael, Saudi Arabia, Sudan.

This will mean a Reader's Digest cir­culation of over FOUR MILLION COP­IES, read by more than TEN MILLIONPEOPLE!

PERSONNEL (Cont'd)Antonio, and KDB, Santa Barbara. Also,Radio Lourenci Marques, which blanketsSouth Africa, has cleared three additionalhalf-hours a week, giving us six nightsa week, straight across the board!

Brethren, the Work of God is leapingahead at a furious pace! Are you keep­ing up with it?

"Baseball Is A Must!"by Ed Rudicel

Top of the ninth! ! These words canbring pain or pleasure-depending uponwhose bull-pen you share.

Horsehide fever is running high. Canthe local Gage Park Whammers upset theLa Grange Pros? Not if Mr. George(Foxy) Gibbs can still bamboozle the

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Windy City Sluggers!Every Sunday afternoon (provided no

monsoon blows into town) the friendlyfoes vie for the satisfaction of victoryin the wholesome quest for profitableexercise. Through the light of the Scrip­tures we learn that there is a measure ofphysical gain (Ist Timothy 4:8), but theseweekly contests provide, also, for de­velopment in Godliness which is a gainin every way.

After the tension and stress of limitedaction in the Spokesman Clubs meltaway, Chicagoans and La Grangers alikeare pushing for grand slams. If youhaven't seen Byford (This-is-a-catcher")Edwards and Kenny (The Hitter) Svehlaburn leather, you haven't lived! Don'trun away-this is only a starter! !

Mr. John (What's-the-score-now?)Krei­dich and Mr. Ed (l-didn't-know-he-could­run) Karwacki are more "gone" thanever! You may not believe it 'til you seeit, but Mr. Oscar (Steal-any-base-but­home) Olson can fan out with the bestof them!

So you can't hit the side of a barn?Don't fret; Bill (The Pacer) May willwhip you into shape in no time! Yousay you never could connect with theball? Don't sweat; Mr. Marvin (Well, he­can-play-basketball) Gardner can showyou how it's done! !

You say they used to call you "Butter­fingers"? Don't let even THAT throwyou for a curve; you can always keepscore as Ed (So-it-shouldn't-be-a-total­loss) Rudicel does. SEE YOU AT THEBALLPARK! !

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