London, Ontario NEWSLETTER

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October 2013 Volume 9 Issue 10

London Seventh Day Adventist Church, 805 Shelborne Street, London, Ontario N5Z 5C6 Canada, 519.680.1965

How do you condense 700 pages of me-ticulous research into a one hour lecture? On Tuesday, September 10, Dr Bertil Wiklander, President of the Trans-

European Division (TED) made a valiant attempt as he shared the results of his two-year search for the biblical roots of ordination. What the audience of 90 at the Newbold College Diversity Seminar heard was not so much his role as admin-istrator...

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An unprecedented involvement in the social justice and care initiative started in Germany. Partnering with a founda-tion established by a former super-model, Waris Dirie, the Seventh-day Adventist hospital in Berlin opened a new center this week to help restore victims of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a cultural ritual in parts of Afri-ca and Asia. The Krankenhaus Wald-friede (Berlin Hospital) opened the Desert

Flower Center in cooperation with the Vienna, Austria-based “Desert Flow-

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In This Issue

• He calls me friend.

• German Adventist Hospital opens.

Center treat FGM victims.

• Ordination: The ongoing search

for understanding.

• Woman Nominated to be Presi-

dent of Southeastern California

Conference.

• Happy to join your ranks!

A word of introduction.

• Congratulations! to pastor Alex

Golovenko on earning the Doctor

of Ministry degree.

• Ontario Conference Board

Appoints New Directors.

• Three Dead, 13 Injured in Florida

Church Vehicle Accident.

• Ordination: The Ongoing search

or understanding.

• Reasons to Believe, week of

Evangelism Oct. 19th -Nov. 10th

Of Abraham it is written that "he was called the friend of God," "the father of all them that believe."

German Adventist Hospital opens center treat FGM victims.

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Supermodel Waris Dirie

Ordination: The ongoing search for understanding.

He was called the friend of God . "the father of all them that believe." James 2:23; Romans 4:11. The testi-mony of God concerning this faithful patriarch is, "Abraham obeyed My voice, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws." And again, "I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgement; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spo-ken of him."

It is God that speaks. He who under-stands the thoughts afar off, says: "I know Abraham. He would not only fear the Lord himself, but would cultivate religion in his home. He would instruct his family in righteousness. The law of God would be the rule in his house-hold.”

Abraham's household comprised more than a thousand souls. Those who were led by his teachings to worship the one God, found a home in his encampment; and here, as in a school, they received such instruction as would prepare them to be representatives of the true faith. It was necessary to bind the members of the household together, in order to build up a barrier against the idol-atry that had become so widespread and so deep-seated. Abraham sought by every means in his power to guard the inmates of his encampment against mingling with the heathen and witnessing their idolatrous practices, for he knew that familiarity with evil would insensibly corrupt the principles. The greatest care was exercised to shut out every form of false religion and to impress the mind with the majesty and glory of the living God as the true object of worship.

Abraham's affection for his children and his household led him to guard their religious faith, to impart to them a knowledge of the divine statutes, as the most precious legacy he could transmit to them, and through them to the world. All were taught that they were under the rule of the God of heaven. There was to be no oppression on the part of par-ents and no disobedience on the part of children. God's law had ap-

pointed to each his duties, and only in obedience to it could any secure happi-ness or prosperity.

His own example, the silent influence of his daily life, was a constant lesson. The unswerving integrity, the benevo-lence and unselfish courtesy, which had won the admiration of kings, were dis-played in the home. There was a fra-grance about the life, a nobility and loveliness of character, which re-vealed to all that he was connected with Heaven. He did not neglect the soul of the humblest servant. In his household there was not one law for the master and another for the servant; a royal way for the rich and another for the poor. All were treated with justice and compassion, as inheritors with him of the grace of life.

"He will command his . . . household." There would be no sinful neglect to re-strain the evil propensities of his chil-dren; no weak, unwise, indulgent fa-vouritism. Abraham would not only give right instruction, but he would maintain the authority of just and righteous laws.

How few there are in our day who fol-low this example! On the part of too many parents there is a blind and self-ish sentimentalism, miscalled love, which is manifested in leaving children, with their unformed judgement and un-disciplined passions, to the control of their own will. Parental indulgence causes disorder in families and in soci-ety. It confirms in the young the desire to follow inclination, instead of submit-ting to the divine requirements. Thus they grow up with a heart averse to do-ing God's will, and they transmit their irreligious, insubordinate spirit to their children and grandchildren.

The light esteem in which the law of God is held, even by religious leaders, has been productive of great evil. The teaching which has become so wide-spread, that the divine statutes are no longer binding upon men, is the same as idolatry in its effect upon the morals of the people. Those who seek to lessen the claims of God's holy law are striking directly at the founda-tion of the government of families and nations. Religious parents, failing to walk in His statutes, do not command their household to keep the way of the Lord. The law of God is not made the rule of life. The children, as they make homes of their own, feel under

no obligation to teach their children what they themselves have never been taught. And this is why there are so many godless families; this is why depravity is so deep and wide-spread.

Like Abraham, parents should com-mand their households after them. Let obedience to parental authority be taught and enforced as the first step in obedience to the authority of God.

Not until parents themselves walk in the law of the Lord with perfect hearts will they be prepared to command their chil-dren after them. A reformation in this respect is needed--a reformation which shall be deep and broad. Parents need to reform; ministers need to reform; they need God in their households. If they would see a different state of things, they must bring His word into their families and must make it their counsellor. They must teach their chil-dren that it is the voice of God ad-dressed to them, and is to be implicitly obeyed. They should patiently instruct their children, kindly and untiringly teach them how to live in order to please God. The children of such a household are prepared to meet the sophistries of infidelity. They have accepted the Bible as the basis of their faith, and they have a founda-tion that cannot be swept away by the incoming tide of scepticism.

In too many households prayer is ne-glected. Parents feel that they have no time for morning and evening worship. They cannot spare a few moments to be spent in thanksgiving to God for His abundant mercies--for the blessed sunshine and the showers of rain, which cause vegetation to flour-ish, and for the guardianship of holy angels. They have no time to offer pray-er for divine help and guidance and for the abiding presence of Jesus in the household. They go forth to labour as the ox or the horse goes, without one thought of God or heaven. They have souls so precious that rather than per-mit them to be hopelessly lost, the Son of God gave His life to ransom them; but they have little more appreciation of His great goodness than have the beasts that perish. Like the patriarchs of old, those who profess to love God should erect an altar to the Lord wher-ever they pitch their tent. If ever there was a time when every house should be a house of prayer, it is now.

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Fathers and mothers should often lift up their hearts to God in humble supplication for themselves and their children. Let the father, as priest of the household, lay upon the altar of God the morning and evening sacrifice, while the wife and children unite in prayer and praise. In such a household Jesus will love to tarry.

From every Christian home a holy light should shine forth. Love should be revealed in action. It should flow out in all home intercourse, showing itself in thoughtful kindness, in gentle, unselfish courtesy. There are homes where this principle is carried out--homes where God is worshipped and truest love reigns. From these homes morning and evening prayer ascends to God as sweet incense, and His mercies and blessings descend upon the suppliants like the morning dew.

A well-ordered Christian household is a powerful argu-ment in favour of the reality of the Christian religion--

an argument that the infidel cannot gainsay. All can see that there is an influence at work in the family that af-fects the children, and that the God of Abraham is with them. If the homes of professed Christians had a right reli-gious mold, they would exert a mighty influence for good. They would indeed be the "light of the world." The God of heaven speaks to every faithful parent in the words ad-dressed to Abraham: "I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgement; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken of him."

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Woman Nominated to be Presi-dent of Southeastern California Conference

A new perspective on trans-parency and openness is manifested by churches in California. The Nominating Committee report is published almost 6 weeks in advance, before the constituency ses-sion. Instead of a Union President, church leader from above standing organization chairing the Nominating Com-mittee, the chairmanship was elected, and led by a retired

theologian Fritz Guy (83).

The conference’s bylaws permit the nominating com-mittee to selects its own chair. The report was posted on the conference website Monday evening, September 16, and was also sent to the constituency meeting delegates, who will vote on nominations at the meeting October 27.

The current President Gerald D. Penick, Sr. told the committee that he did not want to be considered for re-

election during the committee’s first meeting on September 8. Hence, Sandra E. Roberts, the executive secretary of the Southeastern California Conference for the past nine years, has been nominated to be the conference president. If elected, she would be the first woman to be a president of a Seventh-day Adventist conference.Roberts holds a Doctorate of Ministry degree from Claremont School of Theology as well as a Master of Arts degree in religious education from Andrews University. During her 26 years in the Southeastern California Conference, she has also served as the general manager and summer camp director at Pine Springs Ranch, the chaplain for the Loma Linda Elementary and Junior High, associate pastor of the Coro-na Church and associate youth director for the conference. She was ordained to the gospel ministry in 2012.

Last year the constituents of the Southeastern Califor-nia Conference and the Pacific Union Conference, of which the SECC is a part, voted to proceed with ordination of women. This is significant, because conference presidents are required to be ordained ministers of the gospel. South-eastern California Conference is one of the largest local conferences in North America, with a membership of 70,572 who meet in 160 churches in the Imperial, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties. It is home to two denominational universities and its largest health care complex.

Hence, Sandra E. Roberts

Happy to join your ranks! A word of introduction Pr. Juan C. Atencio

It's my privilege to salute you in behalf of the whole Atencio family. We pray that the present finds you in good health and hope as it is in our Lord Jesus Christ.Although we will be formerly introduced in our coming meetings, I would like to take a few seconds to present ourselves.

My story begins in Panama were I was born and lived for the first nine years of my life. At that early age parental vision took us on a different life quest as we migrated to Montreal, Quebec. Although raised as a fourth generation Adventist, I realized my desperate need for a Saviour and accepted His offer at the age of 13. Soon after I attended Kingsway College, Oshawa, where my relationship with Jesus increased daily. It is during those years in high school that my desire to serve God as a minister of the Word was fortified. After my graduation from Canadian Uni-versity College (2002), I joint the Quebec Conference of Seventh-day Adventists' pastoral team to carry the good news of salvation to both french and english speaking peo-ples.

In the last ten years the Lord has extended his blessings as He has allowed me to do my MDiv at Andrews Universi-ty, be confirmed to the pastoral call through ordination, and share the joy of four children with my wife; speaking of whom I shall tell you a little more.

Wanetta (née Newman) is native to Oshawa, Ontario. A fifth generation Adventist on her Munroe side of the family, she devoted her life to follow her Saviour in her early youth. A graduate of Kingsway College herself, she went on to graduate from Newbold College, England, with a BA in English literature and History.

It is while she was working as secretary at the Ontario Conference that I had the privilege to propose (June 2002). She has been a great friend, companion and warrior. She is indeed the best gift my heavenly father could have ever given me.

Together with our four children, Michaela, Aleanna, Stéph-anie and Daniel, we are honoured to be part of our confer-ence family.

Yours Sincerily,

Pr. Juan C. Atencio

One of my favorite Quotes... "Christ's method alone will give true success in reaching the people. The Saviour mingled with men as one who desired their good. He showed His sympathy for them,

ministered to their needs, and won their confidence. Then He bade them, 'Follow Me.'"

Ellen White, MH 143.3

Congratulations to pastor Alex Golovenko on earning the Doctor of Ministry degree. On September 20, 2013

Pastor Alex Golovenko successfully defended his thesis at the Andrews University Theological Seminary. Guided by professors, Dr. Stan Patterson, Dr. David Penno, Dr. Rus-sell Burrill, his work focused on the need to develop a The-ology of Leadership.

Our theology, how we view and understand God, shapes our beliefs and daily practice. How we lead is to be in-formed by God’s design for human interactions. Hence, Dr. Alex Golovenko proposed the Trinitarian Leadership model. This achievement is a blessing to Golovenko fami-ly, and is possible by supportive environment of leaders working alongside together at the London Seventh-day Adventist church.

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Pastor Alex Golovenko in company of his wife Sandra .

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Ontario Conference Board Appoints New Directors.

The Ontario Conference Board of Directors, at its inaugu-ral meeting on September 22, 2013, appointed Pastors Joel Nembhard, Gerardo Oudri and Mr. Donald McIntyre as departmental directors.

Nembhard, lead pastor at Mississauga Adventist Church, is the new Ministerial director. He replaces Dr. Errol Law-rence.

Oudri, pastor at Bronte Adventist Church, fills the Youth director’s position left vacant by Cyril Millett II in January.

Donald McIntyre, Physics teacher at Crawford Adventist Academy, moves into the Office of Education as superin-tendent of schools. The change of title from Superinten-dent of Education to Superintendent of Schools was made in accordance with changes made by the North American Division.

Former superintendent of education, Dr. Janice Maitland, who has been the acting superintendent of education since the constituency meeting will continue for a period of time as acting associate superintendent of schools. The appointments will take immediate effect, but there will be a time of transition while the new directors fulfill current re-sponsibilities.

Netherlands Ordains First Woman Pastor in Europe

The Netherlands Union Conference (NUC) has wel-comed two new pastors, Enrico Karg and Guisèle Berkel-Larmonie, in an ordination ceremony at the Christus Kon-ing church in the Hague on September 21, 2013. Berkel-Larmonie is the first female Seventh-day Adventist pastor to be ordained in Europe!Before the laying on of hands, Dr Tom de Bruin, executive secretary of the NUC, held a ser-mon on what it means to be ‘called.' Citing the stories of Moses, Isaiah, Elisha, Jeremiah, and Ellen White, the ser-mon focused on the narrative of Peter and his miraculous catch in Luke 5:1-11,

explaining that just as each of those people was mirac-ulously called, so every one of us has our own calling from God. “Everyone is called to something different,” said De Bruin, “but everyone is called. None of us is worthy, but if we listen to God’s call amazing things will happen.” NUC President Wim Altink delivered the charge. “It is amazing that we have young, fresh spiritual leaders in the church,” said Altink. “With these leaders our church has a bright fu-ture. I can safely say this is a church to be proud of.” This last phrase refers to the title of the strategic plan for the NUC for the coming five years. Berkel-Larmonie and Karg mark the beginning of what the NUC hopes will be a fresh new generation of young pastors. A staggering 65% of the NUC’s current pastors are due to retire within the next fif-teen years.

This step is resounding in neighbouring fields. “I am very glad that the Netherlands had the courage to ordain [Berkel-Larmonie],” said Pastor Jeroen Tuinstra, president

of the Belgian-

Luxembourg Confer-ence. “We are very happy that our north-ern neighbors have taken this stand for equality and are pre-pared to carry it out. We hope that this may spread to other countries, or that at the very least it may have a positive im-pact on the Theology of Ordination Study Committee.”

Pastor Elise Happé-Heikoop, commissioned in an iden-tical ceremony more than a decade ago and now also offi-cially listed on the NUC’s reports as ordained, was among the first of the pastors present on the stage to welcome Pastor Berkel-Larmonie into the ranks. Looking back at the day, the tone of the service was clearly focused on God, and his calling of all people alike. In this way the NUC ad-ministration followed the tone set in the decision at the Un-ion session last December, where the members called for total equality between all people serving the church. While it is a historic day for female pastors, the emphasis of the day was not on any human affairs, but rather on the unimagina-ble power of God, who calls people to serve his church.

Joel Nembhard

Ministerial Director

Gerardo Oudri

Youth Director

Donald McIntyre

Superintendent

First Woman Pastor in Europe

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German Adventist Hospital opens cente treat FGM victims.

Dirie, herself a victim of FGM at age five, is an in-ternational activist and established the foundation to raise awareness of the ritual. Her 1997 book “Desert Flower” was made into a movie in

2009. “How many little girls are victims of such suffering,” Dirie said at the ceremony. “Even with all these tears, I’m truly happy to sit here. When I see this sign ‘Desert Flower Center,’ I do believe in truth.

FGM is practiced in nearly 30 countries in Africa and Asia. Young girls are subjected to the removal or slicing of some of their sexual organs as a coming-of-age cultural tradition. FGM is sometimes viewed as a status symbol and some practitioners say it controls sexuality and pro-motes chastity. Its effects often include infection, chronic pain and infertility. The United Nations banned the practice last year. The World Health Organization estimates that 150 million women are victims. It is time the church gets involved in this social justice issue in Africa, as the part of liberating Gospel of Jesus. Denise Hochstrasser, Women’s Ministries director for the Adventist Church’s Inter-European Division, based in Berne, Switzerland, said the new center would help restore victims to how God created them.

“When women have lost parts of their body through misunderstanding, tradition, incomprehensible practices, crime and abuse in the past, then if we can, it is our duty to give them back whatever we can so they can live a normal life, as God has meant it to be from the beginning,” Hochstrasser said. “We are happy that an Adventist Hos-pital has taken this step to help on a topic that in so many countries remains silent,” she said. “We have to speak up for these women; we have to inform wherever we can.”

The Desert Flower Center at Berlin Adventist Hospital is expected to serve between 50 and 100 women each year. Another speaker at the event was Dr. Pierre Foldés, the French physician who partnered with Dr. Jean-Antoine Robein to invent a surgical technique to repair damage caused by FGM. To date he has operated on 4,000 wom-en. Dr. Gabriele Halder, a gynecologist, said more aware-ness about FGM is needed even in countries where it isn’t practiced. Women from such a culture are still treated with traditions of their homeland while living in Western coun-tries. “Women, after the death of their husbands, are often mutilated again so they can remarry,” Halder said. “This needs to be stopped here in Europe, too.”

Three Dead, 13 Injured in Florida Church Vehicle Accident September 16, 2013

Three members of a Seventh-day Adventist Church con-gregation in Florida are dead and 13 more are injured fol-lowing a tragic September 14 accident on Interstate 75 near Ft. Myers, media reports indicate. A van carrying 15 passengers rolled over a few times Saturday in Lee Coun-ty, Fla., ejecting several of the passengers and killing a man, a Florida Highway Patrol spokesman said. The acci-dent occurred around 7:30 a.m.

It was one of three vans traveling to Tampa for a convoca-tion when it overturned as it headed to an overpass. The left-rear tire’s tread separated from the tire, causing the van to swerve onto the emergency lane and then overturn. The tire exploded and the vehicle flipped over several times before coming to rest on its roof. The Maranatha

French (Mission Group) Seventh-day Adventist Church in Lauderhill, Florida, operated the van, which was en route to a Haitian Adventist Convocation in Tampa, Florida. Nostra Damas, 20, of Lauderhill, apparently died at the scene of the crash. Osee Elian, 22, and Gertha Petit-Frere, 62, both of Sunrise, Florida, succumbed to their injuries the next day. “Our hearts at Florida Conference of Seventh-day Advent-ists continue to be saddened from the news of two addi-tional deaths as a result of the van accident that occurred [Sept. 14],” a statement from the conference said. “We continue our prayers for the families of the three victims who died and pray for God’s healing on those still recover-ing from the accident.”

Church Vehicle Accident

Victims of FGM

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Ordination: The Ongoing search for understanding.

politician, and academ-ic, though there were elements of all three. Instead, here was a Bible student and a conscientious pastor, concerned to teach and guide his people. Dr Wiklander began his lecture by explain-ing the latest round in the process which the global Seventh-day

Adventist Church is going through, as it struggles once again to decide whether to ordain women to the gospel ministry. Dr Wiklander went on to describe his biblical find-ings.

He described a variety of processes of 'imposition of hands' in the Bible. Laying on of hands was used to trans-mit virtue but also, as in the scapegoat ceremony, to pass on responsibility for sin. Laid on hands could dispense blessing, healing and baptism. Certain patterns of Jewish scribal ordination in the Old Testament might have influ-enced the early church to lay hands on deacons – a prac-tice neither recommended nor repeated in the rest of the New Testament. Jesus did not ordain but He made or ap-pointed apostles and warned them not to be like the scribes but to follow the servant model of leadership. There is no general command to the Christian church to ordain anyone to a leadership position. The concept of ordination is not found in the Bible and emerges in the second and third-century as the Roman church mirrored what was done in the Roman Empire's legal and civic system. This Roman Catholic concept was not fully challenged during the Protestant Reformation and unbiblical practices re-mained. "In the New Testament", said Dr Wiklander, "there is no term for ordination as a process of induction to church leadership. It is a pagan practice."

After focusing on the Reformation, the lecture moved on to look at early Adventist history. Dr Wiklander had re-searched in depth the ecclesiastical heritage of James White and many other Adventist pioneers. They brought with them into the Adventist Church from their previous group ‒ Christian Connection ‒ the three orders of ministry: pastor, elder, and deacon. The idea of apostolic succes-sion – that only ordained ministers could ordain ministers – took hold but, "it has no biblical root", Dr Wiklander insist-ed. Finally the audience was treated to a whistle-stop tour of an extensive list of church leadership tasks which Ellen White told the church leadership in 1901 that women should take and for which they should be paid by the tithe.

"And she said this", said Dr Wiklander, "at a time when women were not even allowed the vote in political life."

Dr Wiklander concluded the lecture on a personal note. "I become quite emotional when I speak about this", he said. "The research has given me a big question. I be-lieve we should bring men and women into the ministry on equal terms." The question and answer session brought more fascinating insights. "I've been ordained...so I feel a

bit pagan now!" said one pastor. "If ordination is a pagan not a biblical practice, should we ordain at all?" Dr Wiklander admitted that he had considered that possibility but rejected it. "We need to have a way of ensuring that we

are led by educated and appropriate church leaders and we need a practical way of doing that. There are a lot of traces of paganism in our lives, praying with our hands together, Christmas trees, and the names of the days of the week. Our significant concern needs to be what mean-ing we assign to ordination. I believe we need a deep re-form to make our practices of ordination more biblical."

Questions explored the possibility both of what might happen in the church if women's ordination is agreed and if it is not. People shared concerns about submitting to a vote rather than to the voice of scripture. Dr Wiklander explored the worst possible scenario ‒a massive schism in which people go their own way and the tithe system is threat-ened. Some will be unhappy whatever is decided and re-search needs to be in place as a basis for our teaching. Either way, we need to have a big reform of ordination in our Church and in relations between clergy and laity so that members do not feel the status of pastors separates them from lay people. We can only go forward together if we are all together as servants.

Finally, the President gave more personal commit-ments to his belief in the ordination of women. "I am con-verted completely to what I said tonight. I would die for it." Newbold's pastor, Patrick Johnson, was impressed. "There was a great deal for pastors to think about in this lecture", he said. "I've heard Bertil speak many times but I've never heard him speak with such passion and conviction."

Dr Bertil Wiklander

Western Diet Unsustainable for Planet By PCRM

The more animal products people con-sume, the less likely we are to feed future generations, accord-ing to a new study from the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment. Globally, meat and dairy consumption is

expected to increase by 68 and 57 percent, respectively, by 2030. Increased demand for animal products stems not on-ly from population growth, but from increasing affluence among the world’s population, which has shifted from grain-

based diets to animal-based diets (meat, dairy products, and eggs).

Production of animal products requires more land and re-sources than plant-based foods, and now 75 percent of all agricultural land is used for animal production. The negative consequences of consuming more animal products affect the environment and future food availability, as well as world health. Greater animal product consumption is associ-ated with increased risk for heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Cassidy ES, West PC, Gerber JS, Foley JA. Redefining agricultural

yields: from tonnes to people nourished per hectare. Environ Res

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Family life, October

1. Accept your

family status

though it may

be imperfect.

2.Reconnect

broken relation-

ships where

possible. 3. De-

clutter. Release

past hurts. 4.

Forgive, and

accept forgiveness. 5. Create joy. Laugh. 6. Share a hobby.

7. Practice thankfulness; it is good medicine, and free.

8. Use the good linen sometimes and the good dishes of-

ten. 9. Help others. 10. Serve humanity together as a fami-

ly. 11. Stay healthy and hopeful. Above all else grow in

Christ .12. Read the bible, and pray together as a family.

A.C.E.S School pledges & dona-

tions! On behalf of Adventist Christian

Elementary School, we are so

glad for your commitment to help

ACES school grow. With your

monetary help we will be able to

continuing deliver Quality Advent-

ist Christian Education. Please

take note of the following when

you fulfill your pledges:

1. Donations written on the line CHURCH SCHOOL line of the

church offering envelop must be accompanied by the word

ACES PLEDGE. Or simply use an open subject line. This is

important since these pledges will go directly to the school and will

not be combined with the general church contribution to the

school.

2. Using INTERACT. If you choose this method of payment, it

is easer to create ACES account as payee within your online

banking account. Once you make the interact payment send us an

email to ACES.LONDON.TREASURER@GMAIL.COM and let us

know the answer you set up. Your pledge will be deposited directly

into the school bank account.

3. You could mail a cheque, payable to Adventist Christian

Elementary School, to: 406-611 Wonderland Rd. N, London, ON

N6H 5N7.

4. Or you can visit www.aceslondon.ca and click on the DO-

NATE button. There you can donate using paypal, credit card,

or debit card.

5. To expedite the process (this is our preferred method),

please deposit your school pledges directly in the box locat-

ed at the church foyer, beneath the TV set.

A Receipt will be issue to you for tax purposes.

Please, feel free to contact Anna Perez at 226-212-0200

with any question or comment.

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Animal products

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Local and District schedule of speakers, October 2013

* Spanish services are bi-lingual, with translation to English available

Saturday 11 A.M.

SABBATH WORSHIP SPEAKERS at Western Ontario Seventh-day Adventist churches

Windsor 5350 Haig Avenue

Windsor Spanish 3325 Walker R.

London South 805 Shelborne Street

London Spanish 649 King

Street

October 5 Marian Kossovan Luis Capote Alex Golovenko George Pérez

October12

Marian Kossovan

Rudy Alvir Alex Golovenko Rene López

October 19

Justin Muvunga

Elmer Marenko Pathfinders Investiture

Children preaching

October 26

Marian Kossovan

Elmer Marenko

Denis Kaiser

Rene López

www.adventistlondon.ca

Mid-week Prayer meeting at 805 Shelborne Street

Wednesdays at 7 P.M. London (South) SDA Church

Adventist Heritage Month

02 Oct. Pastor Alex Golovenko

09 Oct. Clara Baptiste

16 Oct. Earl Biggs

23 Oct. Eugene Bernardo

30 Oct. Cameron Munro

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