Covenanter Witness Vol. 86 - Rparchives.org

CURED NARCOTICS ADDICTSSPEAK AT GENEVAThe dangers of drug abuse werepresented by a team of cured narcoticsaddicts in a program at Geneva CollegeStudent Center at 8 p.m., Friday, March12.The young men, representing theTeen Challenge Training Center, are partof a relatively small minority of addicts inthe United States who have overcomenarcotics addiction.The programs which Teen Challengehas been sponsoring in high schoolsthroughout the state have been recommendedby the Pennsylvania CriminalJustice Planning Board, a branch of theState Crime Commission. RaymondFrankenburg, assistant director of theCrime Commission said, "The TeenChallenge effort has been so effective withstudents that the commission is fully endorsingthe program in Pennsylvaniaschools."The Pennsylvania Association ofStudent Councils recently named the TeenChallenge presentation as the outstandingprogram in state high schools during the1969-70 term.At a time when federal hospitals areobtaining a recovery rate of about 3percent with narcotics addicts the TeenChallenge organization claims over a 70percent recovery rate.The program at Geneva wassponsored by the Religious Services officeand the missionary societies of the PittsburghArea Reformed PresbyterianChurches.NOTICETrue Calvinists love "TULIP."Almonte Covenanters especially do. Wefondly gaze on a million and more tulipsin Ottawa, generally in full bloom aboutmid-May.However, we aren't so totallydepraved or limited but what wepersevere long ourselves and almostirresistibly long that you might elect thisyear to visit us about that time. There isone condition though — write forcomplete travel information from the"Look-out and Reform Committee", c/oMiss Jeanette Waddell, R.R. 2,Almonte, Ontario, CANADA.14SEATTLE, WASHINGTON(Rev. Robert McMillan, Pastor)The Pacific Coast Presbytery met,February 17 and 18, in the new churchbuilding of the Seattle congregation. Theroll was as follows: (ministers) BruceHemphill, Bruce Stewart, RaymondMcCracken, Lester Kilpatrick, DonaldWeilersbacher, Glenn McFarland, RobertMcMillan;, Ronald Mackenzie (fraternaldelegate from the O.P. Church), and JamesCarson (consultative member), (rulingelders) Samuel Marshall, Daniel Hyatt,Gordon Betts, Joseph Fleming. Officerselected were Glenn McFarland,Moderator, Bruce Hemphill, Clerk, andRaymond McCracken, Assistant Clerk.The Seattle congregation was happy tohave the members of Presbytery presentfor the dedication of the new building onThursday, February 18. The dedicationsermon was preached by Rev. JamesCarson, D. D. The church was filled tocapacity as friends and guests rejoiced withthe congregation in the completion of thebuilding after several years of planning.A reception was held following the service.Nancy Ann Redfoot, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Glenn S. Redfoot, and David A.McMillan, son of Rev. and Mrs. RobertMcMillan, were united in marriage,December 19, 1970, in St. John LutheranChurch, Greenville, Pennsylvania. Theyare now making their home in Seattle andhelping in our congregational activities.Our pastor, Mr. McMillan, flew tcAnchorage, Alaska on March 11, and withthe assistance of Elder Joseph Lamont,received into the Reformed PresbyterianChurch, Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Long,and two of their children, Calvin (15), andEllen (13); Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Long.Mrs. Stanley Long (nee Kathy Fish) wasalready a member of the ReformedPresbyterian Church in Wilkinsburg.These two families are asking Pacific CoastPresbytery to designate them a missionstation and hope to be the nucleus for thefirst Reformed Presbyterian congregationin Alaska. Brian and Ruth Long arestudents in Geneva College. Mr. HowardLong recently was honored by beingnamed Engineer of the Year by theEngineering Society of Alaska. The Longfamilies are deeply inteiested in Christianeducation on all levels .We welcome home Mr. JosephFleming, who spent the winter in Floridaand Pennsylvania.Kay and Evelyn Gilchrist cruised theCarribean and spent some time in SouthAmerica.The Joseph Lamont family combinedbusiness and a pleasant vacation inHawaii.Mrs. Bob Collins, a welcome visitorfrom Phoenix, spent a week with hermother,. Mrs. Marguerite Mitchell.The young people have continued tosupport Chu Lin, a Korean boy, in a schoolfor handicapped children for the past year.On March 3, Jim Pennington spoke ofthe progress and needs of the Japanchurches, after which a pleasant time ofconversation and refreshment was enjoyed.We are very grateful to all who helpedin the building, furnishing, and completionof our new building and invite all to join usin our worship service.Karen Anderson spent the winter andwill attend the spring quarter in Olympia asan apprentice legislator. She plans tospend the summer at Crater Lake with theparks services.We are looking forward to havingvacation Bible school again this spring.MacNAIR AUTHORS BOOKON CHURCH PLANTINGRev. Donald J. Mac Nair, executivedirector of National Presbyterian Missions,the church extension agency of theReformed Presbyterian Church,Evangelical Synod, has completed anextensive new book which serves as amanual in church planting from the veryearliest stages through the establishment ofthe particular church.Entitled The Birth, Care, andFeeding of a Local Church, the 175-pagebook includes dozens of practicalsuggestions ranging from a proposed dailyschedule for a mission church pastor to asample evaluation sheet for neighborhoodsurvey work. There is a four-page chartdetailing proper procedure in a churchbuilding program.The book is a reflection of MacNair'sexperience as pastor of a small church, aspastor of a larger church which had its ownmission church interests, and morerecently as head of the denominationalUNITED PRAYER CONFERENCEMay 9-16TOPIC: THE FAMILYSponsored byNational CY StaffLook for programsthe last week of MarchCOVENANTER WITNESS1