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July 11, 2009

In this issueTop netAdventist sites awarded

Scientist eyes cancer breakthrough

Adventist World issue

Napier hosts healthy outreach

College singers in concert at Opera House

Sydney, New SouTh wAleS

Avondale Singers, a vocal ensemble from Avondale College, featured in a free concert at the Sydney Opera House on June 15. They joined the

Albuquerque Youth Symphony from New Mexico, US; the Mount Albert Grammar Orchestra from Auckland, New Zealand; and a combined choir from Fort Street School, Broughton Anglican College in Sydney and Summit High School in Frisco, Colorado, USA.

Dr Rob Dennis, senior lecturer in the college’s Faculty of Arts and director of the ensemble, says, “It’s been 30 years since Avondale Singers featured in a performance

of this significance.”Avondale presented the concert with

United World Concert Tours, a US-based company that organises performance tours for student musicians. The concert saw 2000 of the 2500 seats in the Concert Hall filled, in spite of it being held on a Monday night and first night of examinations at the college. Dr Dennis says, “We did the impossible with the unlikely at a difficult time.”

Avondale Singers began in 1947 and is the largest vocal group on the campus. The singers have many recordings to their credit, with the most recent being a DVD recording of Handel’s Messiah.—Lyndelle Lawrence

Avondale Singers performed in concert with a number of other groups at a free concert, held in the Sydney Opera House.

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Brisbane Adventist Voices go to jail

Wahroonga, New SouTh wAleS

Some of the South Pacific Division’s (SPD) top webmasters have been recognised in the inaugural “SPD netAdventist best sites” awards. Moree

church, <http://moree.adventist.org.au>, won “Best netAdventist custom design theme” and Central Coast Community Church’s website, <http://cccc.org.au>, won “Best netAdventist homepage using a default design theme.” “Best overall netAdventist site” was won by the North New Zealand Conference website, <www.nnzc.org.nz>.

All SPD websites using the netAdventist software—the General Conference-owned website management software available to all Adventist churches and schools—were eligible for nomination in the three catego-ries. Voting was then opened to all web-masters, which counted for 50 per cent of the total tally. The remaining 50 per cent weighting came from the SPD’s Web Min-istry Department.

“Some webmasters have put in plenty of work in the few months we’ve had the new version of netAdventist,” says Scott Wegener, web developer for the Adventist

Media Network. “It’s been good to show-case what can be achieved with netAdventist but, more so, to acknowledge some of this hard work. It’s easy to spend hours on a website and gain only a handful of visitors to reward the effort. We hoped this might help encourage our webmasters to keep at it. You never know who’s passing through your site and how someone’s walk to sal-vation has been influenced by their visit.”

The leading webmasters of the winning websites will each receive a Logitech web-cam. Other highly-ranked entries included Sydney Portuguese church (<http://syd neyportuguese.adventist.org.au>), Herit-age College (<http://www.heritagecollege.com.au>), Maroochydore church (<http://maroochydore.adventist.org.au>) and Pres-ton church (<http://preston.adventist.org.au>).—RECORD staff/Scott Wegener

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PNGUM youth director ordainedLae, PAPuA New GuINeA

Who’d want to be a minister in today’s pop culture?” asked Dr Brad Kemp, associate general secretary of the South Pacific

Division (SPD), at the ordination of Pastor Timothy Sandau in Lae recently.

Pastor Sandau is director of Youth Min-istries for the Papua New Guinea Union Mission (PNGUM) and has served for the past 13 years as a youth director in two local missions in PNGUM. Prior to this, he worked as a teacher.

His ordination was attended by a number of family, friends and church members, as well as church leaders from PNGUM and SPD. Dr Kemp reminded Pastor Sandau that he had been called to ministry in an age “when values keep changing.”

Dr Kemp based his sermon on Paul’s second epistle to Timothy and challenged Pastor Sandau “to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you” (2 Timothy 1:6).

Pastor Sandau’s elder brother, Daniel, said during the ordination service that Pastor Sandau had been inspired by their father’s example. Their father introduced the Adventist church’s message to their village and held the position of head elder of the village church, as well as that of the neighbouring church, for many years until his passing.—Matupit Darius

Tim Cahill with one of the Socceroo’s younger fans at the Sydney farewell for the team.

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BrISBane, QueeNSlAND

The Brisbane Adventist Voices (BAV) and The Enterman Trio were greeted by an eager sniffer dog when they re-cently visited the Borallon Correction

Centre, a medium-security prison west of Brisbane. The choir presented its last official concert in the prison’s gymnasium—which members report didn’t take acoustic consid-erations into account—where conductor

Aleta King has brought the choir to perform on two previous occasions. She says, “Previ-ous concerts had seen larger audiences but this afternoon, we seemed to really connect.”

BAV members were able to interact briefly with inmates after the concert and some “surprising” connections were made. A former Adventist recognised the “Try Jesus” cards the choir handed out following the performance and requested prayer with the group.—Focus Cathy Sandau and Pastor Timothy Sandau.

“Best netAdventist custom design theme”: Moree, NSW.

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BrISBane, QueeNSlAND

Eight Mile Plains Adventist church member Dr Liliana Endo-Munoz believes she is on the verge of a sig-nificant breakthrough in her research

on osteosarcoma (juvenile bone cancer).In a paper to be published at the end of

the year, Dr Endo-Munoz will argue that certain medication currently proposed to treat osteosarcoma patients may increase the chances of the disease spreading, or metastasizing, to the patient’s lungs.

“We have identified one particular bone-related gene that is turned off in patients with metastasis, and we can measure the levels of this gene to predict, with 93 per cent accuracy, which osteosarcoma patients will develop metastasis. The gene codes for a protein called TRAP, which is made by a particular type of bone cell, and these patients all have a lower amount of these cells and TRAP,” she says.

The medication currently proposed for treating osteosarcoma patients has been successful in treating other diseases like osteoporosis, and cancers such as breast and prostate that metastasize to bone. How-ever, Dr Endo-Munoz believes the same

medication will actually do more harm than good in osteosarcoma patients.

“The drug actually lowers the amount of bone cells and TRAP,” says Dr Endo-Munoz. “And so it increases an osteosarcoma pa-tient’s chances of having the dis-ease metastasize to their lungs.”

Osteosarcoma commonly af-fects young people aged between 13 and 19, and the disease metas-tasizes to the lungs in almost 50 per cent of the patients. The only treatment for lung metastasis is aggressive chemotherapy and patients have a low survival rate.

A Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland’s Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine, Dr Endo-Munoz has been in charge of researching “the role of TRAP and the osteoclast in osteosarcoma metastasis” for the past five years.

“I have two teenagers who are right at the age when the cancer hits. I have seen how devastating it is for patients and their family, as well as the trauma of losing loved ones,” says Dr Endo-Munoz. “That is the motivation for me to find a solution. I can-

not do anything about those who have been lost, or those who have the disease now but maybe I can do something for those in the future.”

Dr Endo-Munoz has presented her find-ings in the United States, New Zealand and Australia, and has received grants and awards of more than $A500,000 to conduct her research.

“I believe the project has been blessed by God. I don’t start my research day without having a short devotional in the morn-ing and asking for His wisdom, blessing and guidance,” says Dr Endo-Munoz. —Melody Tan

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Adventist scientist eyes possible cancer breakthrough

Dr Liliana Endo-Munoz is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland’s Diamantina Institute

for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine.

◆ A vegetarian buffet was hosted by napier church (nth new Zealand) for the Napi-er community on April 5. It attracted more than 80 guests, at least half of whom were non-Adventists. Guests were treated to a beautifully deco-rated dining experience, with a high quality smorgasbord of soups, salads, main courses and

desserts, prepared under the supervision of ex-restaurateur John Ward. To the delight of the recipients, donated spot prizes were won on the night, includ-ing a petrol voucher, massage treatments and a cake. Twen-ty guests signed up for other health-based events, such as vegetarian cooking demon-strations, a ChIP course and a Bible health talk. A Spring buf-fet is planned for october and will, along with future buffets, be a source of fundraising for local church health initiatives. —Hugh Heenan

◆ Central Coast adventist School, nSW, recently show-cased their creative arts through a combined initiative of the Cre-ative arts and Languages, and the Technological and applied Sciences departments. Both departments wanted to provide an opportunity for students who study subjects such as French, drama, music, textiles and art to showcase their creative abil-ity to the wider school com-munity. on Thursday evening, June 18, the school’s first annual Creative arts night was held in the naomi Frew Memorial

hall. The evening featured dis-plays and presentations from students in years 7 to 11. The main program featured music and drama performances, con-cluding with two numbers by the secondary school stage band. Food was provided by the Year 12 students, who catered for the evening. They will put the proceeds from the night toward their fundrais-ing efforts for the Make a dif-ference trip to Fiji, a positive alternative to “schoolies” week. — B a r t R a e t h e l / B r e n t o n Luchow

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A bigger (ADRA) issueBILL SMyThe, NSw

As suggested, I “checked out” Matt’s story (Insert, June 6) and learned of the work of ADRA in Zambia. I shared his anger at the high death rates of children in sub-Saharan Africa. Some-thing more must be done to help these children survive and live normal lives. However, this will never happen unless agencies such as ADRA adopt a different approach to their aid programs.

If Tembwe and Barth had exercised abstinence or birth control, we immediately recognise a vastly improved lot for them. However, their 18 children are here and as they grow into strong, healthy kids, they will consume much more into adulthood. Without a dramatic reduction in numbers in succeeding generations, ADRA’s work will come to naught over time. Subscribing to their current program is to pour money down a bottomless pit with no ongoing benefit.

ADRA should work to help these people make reductions in future populations in these overpopulated regions, if they expect to achieve any lasting affect on starvation and poverty. ADRA is in a position to do something positive to truly lift this and future generations out of poverty permanently if they will but raise their sights to the real issues.

reSponSe: CandICe JaqueS, CommuNICATIoNS CooRDINAToR, ADRA AuSTRAlIA

Extreme poverty is a complex and vicious cycle, and there are no easy or quick solutions. There are also no simple explanations about how millions of people around the world have been caught up in it.

Family size is just one complexity in helping to alleviate pov-erty. Large families are more common in developing countries for several reasons:• Children are often the only support system—they work on the

family property, look after the ill and provide for elderly parents.• High child mortality rates. With poor nutrition and limited,

if any, access to health services, many children die before their parents, pushing parents to continue having children.

• Limited or no access to family planning education and services.This is just a snapshot ofsome of the issues surrounding family

size in the fight against poverty and a small insight into why ad-dressing multiple needs is crucial. For example, ADRA’s integrated food security and health projects provide education to farmers on how to better utilise land, and look after crops to increase yield and food quality. As the farmer becomes more effective, they rely less on children. In addition, as children learn from their parents, experience better health and nutrition, and have more time to go to school, they decrease the likelihood of future generations remain-ing poor. Further, health education and resources help to address child mortality and, where government guidelines allow, provide or support family planning education and services.

This is a complex issue but we hope this has shed some light on the cycle of poverty that currently holds so many in its deadly grasp.

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WeddingsHinkley—Karan. � Gary David Hinkley (Redcliffe, Qld), and Vidya Wati Karan, daughter of Dipmati Stephens (Gilgandra, NSW) and foster daughter of Dr John and Sue Hammond (Melbourne, Vic), were married 30.5.09 during the divine service in Redcliffe church. Mike Brownhill, John Hammond

Hoare—Cruz. � Darren Hoare, son of Eric and Eryn Hoare (Adelaide, SA), and Leah Cruz, daughter of Alexander Cruz (US) and Deborah Cruz (deceased), were married 17.5.09 in Pasay Adventist church, Manila, Philippines. Darren and Leah plan to live in Adelaide. Ephraim Parulan

Piez—MacGillivray. � Jason Piez, son of Barry and Prue Piez (Mildura, Vic), and Raschelle MacGillivray, daughter of Alastair and Jillian MacGillivray (Van-uatu), were married 17.5.09 in the Inland Botanic Gardens Bush Chapel, Mildura, Vic. � David Edgren

Rodgers—Penner. �Seth David Rodgers, son of David and Janice Rodgers (Ka-llangur, Qld), and Amanda Lois Penner, daughter of Rodney and Susan Penner (Denver, Colorado, US), were married 29.5.09 at Poipu Gardens Resort on the Island of Kauai, Hawaii. David Rodgers

ObituariesCreighton, � Thomas Robert, born 14.9.1918; died 26.5.09, aged 90. He was predeceased by his wife, Eslet Maude Creighton, on 20.9.03. He is survived by his five children and their families, Alen, Geoffrey, Kenneth, Heather Cooper and Valerie Fellows. Benjamin Martin

Taylor, Vera Margaret, born 27.1.1936 at Orange, NSW; died 4.6.09 in Westmead Hospital, Sydney. In 1965, Margaret mar-ried Cliff Taylor, who predeceased her in 2006. She is survived by her son, Scott Taylor; his wife, Caryn; and her grand-sons, James and Ben. Margaret became an Adventist in the 1950s and was active in the Parramatta church. During her life, she worked for a period for Sanitarium Health Food Company. Margaret was

courageous in her trials, and deep in her convictions and love for the Lord. She rests in the certain hope of the Resurrec-tion. Rein Muhlberg

Tunnicliff, �Allen Leslie, born 22.10.1928 at Rylstone, NSW; died 16.5.09 at Grif-fith. He is survived by his beloved wife, Lorna; his children, Sue, Gary, Gregory, Geraldine and Allen; his 12 grandchil-dren and his 27 great-grandchildren. Al-len and Lorna were long-time members of Griffith church since being baptised by Pastor Ivan Vickery. Allen served as head deacon there for many years. In his younger life, he was a noted dancer and racing driver but when Allen came to know Jesus, his love for his Lord took priority. During the last 15 years of his life, he suffered a lot from ill health. He was largely housebound for the last five years, where Lorna and his beloved Mal-tese terriers cheered many a moment. Allen had a capacity to be cheerful even during his most difficult times. He was a devoted husband, father, uncle, grandpa and church member. He is sadly missed by his loved ones and rests in Griffith Lawn Cemetery, awaiting the Life-giv-er’s return. Colin Richardson

van �Gelder, �Kerrie Ann, born 18.6.1965 at Kaitaia, NZ; died 6.6.09 at Auck-land. She is survived by her parents, Frank and Evelyn Watts (Manukau); her siblings, Jeffrey Watts (Lower Hutt), Robyn Howie (Canberra, ACT), Gleny-sie Bull (Tamworth, NSW) and Roger Watts (Tauranga, NZ). Kerrie Ann was an inspiration to her family and friends, and the many Refugee adults and spe-cial needs children she taught at the NZ Centre for Refugee Education. � Russell Willcocks, Stephen Davies

Winterburn, �Eric Aubray Douglas, born 10.2.1920 at Timaru, South NZ; died 1.5.09 in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA, of heart failure. He married Zita Walsh. On 3.1.1967, he married Joy Adams at Gisborne, NZ, who prede-ceased him on 20.12.06. He was also pre-deceased by his daughter from his first marriage, Leona Durrant, in 2007. He is survived by his daughter, Judith Walsh; his son, David (both of Perth, WA); his son, Marc (Gingin); his 18 grandchil-dren; and his 17 great-grandchildren. Eric was a committed and devoted be-liever, with strong faith in the return of Jesus and the Resurrection. He was

buried alongside Joy at Pinnaroo Cem-etery, May 7, with military honours as a returned serviceman, having spent three years during WWII in North Africa as a medic stretcher bearer. Cyrus Adams

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Western �Australian �Conference �Constit-uency �meeting. �Notice is hereby given of the regular Constituency Meeting of the Western Australian Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to be held at Carmel Adventist Col-lege Auditorium on the weekend of August 29 to 30, 2009. A combined Sabbath program will commence at 10 am, with reports presented Sab-bath afternoon. The business of the meeting will commence at the conclu-sion of the closing Sabbath program on August 29, concluding August 30. The meeting will receive reports from the Secretary and Treasurer, vote on various appointments and consider constitutional changes, all in accord-ance with the Conference Constitu-tion. Further information is avail-able from the Conference Secretary <warricklong@adventist.org.au>.

Medical �practitioners �needed for the Lo-gan Adventist Health Association Health Centre. Full-time and part-time prac-titioners needed. Contact 0428 486 455.

Giant � Booksale. 5000 quality used books. 70%=$A3. Teachers, preach-ers, church librarians, readers. Nuna-wading church, Central Road, Sunday July 26, 11 am to 3 pm. Mark your calendar. Church building fund.

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Volunteers!Volunteer � Team � Leader � or � Small �Team—Solomon � Islands, � to over-see the construction of the Form 7 Building, Kukudu Adventist Col-lege in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands. Foundation dug and building materials already supplied. Just needs constructing with locals willing to assist. For more information, contact Lyn at <volunteers@advenitst.org.au>.

Volunteer �Teachers—Tonga. �Teach-ers required for Tonga in 2010 for 12 months. Mizpah School needs an English, Science and Maths teacher for Form 5. Beulah College needs an English teacher for Forms 5 and 6, and a computer teacher. For more information, please email Sio-saia Vaihola, <svaihola@adventist.org.to>.

Volunteer �Property �Inspector—South �Pacific �Division �(SPD) �Island �Terri-tory �(excl �PNG). �Risk Management Service is seeking to appoint a vol-unteer to inspect, assess and update records relating to church owned properties in the SPD Island Field and to provide training on prop-erty cover to local church leaders. For more details please contact Lyn Price <volunteers@adventist.org.au> or phone (02) 9847 3275.

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Positions vacant �▲ Healthcare �Outreach �Manager—Sydney �Adventist �Hospital �(Wahroonga, �NSW) �

is seeking a suitable person to provide active leadership and management of their Healthcare Outreach program. Under this program, volunteer medical teams undertake lifesaving and life-changing surgery, along with empower-ment of local health workers, for development and delivery of health care for specified services. Over recent years, more than 80 teams of hundreds of volun-teers have been involved in this humanitarian and development program. This role requires very close liaison with volunteers, donors and NGO funding or-ganisations. Previous experience with healthcare work in developing countries and NGOs would be an advantage. Inquiries and applications to Annette Baldwin, Nursing Executive Officer, Sydney Adventist Hospital, 185 Fox Valley Road, Wahroonga, NSW 2076, phone (02) 9487 9431 or email <AnnetteB@sah.org.au>. Applications close July 31, 2009.

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