L. C. Miller
Former Ministerial Secretary, Middle Eastern Division
Compassion Can We Get It Back?
Turn off the TV, set aside the distractions, and read this article thoughtfully and thoroughly.
Barnabas--Ministerial Recruiter
BARNABAS is one of the lesser known of the apostolic missionaries who was scattered abroad from Jerusalem when persecution was begun against the infant Christian church, but judging from the few scriptural passages making reference to him, he must have been a successful trainer of ministers—young ministers. . .
Doctor-Minister Evangelistic Team (Concluded)
WHILE numerous avenues of approach might have been used in our efforts to reach the Moslem with our message, the following plan is what proved effective for us. During the first portion of the campaign in Tehran, the following eight subjects were presented. . .
Doctor-Minister
A METHOD of evangelism that was new to me was presented to those attending an evangelistic council sponsored by the Applied Theology Department of the Seminary at Andrews University in March, 1967. Dr. M. G. Hardinge, of Loma Linda University School of Public Health, while speaking on health evangelism, quoted from the works of Ellen G. White. The words he read continued to ring in my mind until Dr. Herschel C. Lamp, medical secretary of the Middle East Di vision, and I united our efforts as a doctor-minister team in a series of meetings aimed at Moslems attending the Adventist Center in Tehran, Iran. . .
Evangelistic Institute in the Middle East Division
FIFTY-ONE thousand seven hundred and fifty-five. Any way you look at it, it's still a big number, especially to the ministers of the Middle East Division. Our president, F. C. Webster, placed that number on the wall of the division committee room to be a reminder to us that there are 51,755 people in the Middle East for each Seventh-day Adventist in our division, and 51,755:1 is the highest ratio population to members in any of our world divisions, with the exception of China. . .
The Bell Rings in the Middle East
SHE grasped the rope eagerly, that elderly peasant woman of north west Iran, and tugged vigorously to send the message of the bell over all the village, "Come to the church—come to the church." That ringing bell is symbolic of the three angels' messages, which must be sounded to all the 143 million inhabitants in the 4.5 million square miles of the eleven major countries and handful of desert sheikdoms that comprise our Middle East Division.