The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 40, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1983 Page: 2 of 17
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Christian Chronicle I December, 1993
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Library
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FEATURES
Women radio workers
1983 in Review
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Faculty
CHURCH GROWTH
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Chinese work in Houston
calendar of events
December
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and hauling logs.
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were doing....*’
Working inside KNLS and running the
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so natural and enjoyed the rugged life,
said Donna,
PARTNERS 11,13
Christian service award given
Friends of Welch endow ACU
Hughes takes CCC post
Mann wins editorial contest
INTERNAT'L
Retirees work In Switzerland
Brazil team gets visas
OPINION 14,15
Local churches need goals
’Day After,* last days
A church grows In Boston
’Are disciples super Christians?’
FLINT, Mich
South Africa
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to the Bristo
Studies.
Ernie McDa
in several stat
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Studies.
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Doritta Cassel
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COVER NEWS
Church plans ’Year of Prayer’
Church helps Lae flood victims
Grenada churches meet
NATIONAL 4-6,10
Chinese evangelism seminar held
SEE program moves
Hensley gets cancer treatment
Distinctive radio program airs
News
Summary
• The DeBarr Church of Christ, An-
chorage, Ah., reports 14 responses during
a recent evangelistic effort led by Ivan
Stewart of Oklahoma City.
never get to — and people were really
After the formal dedication of Station
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Editor, HOWARD W. NORTON
NmnsK B«lw. BAHMY MeBRIDK
Nawa Mtar, JOY MeMTLLON
ASwrtMM Maoafw. FMLtP D. PATTERSON
The Christian Chronicle, which wm founded in IMS, to an
international newapaper for members of the churches of
Christ, owned and published monthly by Oklahoma
Christian Cottage, Route 1, Box 141, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma mil. Telephone: (401) 47B-1M1.
The purpose of The Christian Chronicle to to teU good
news about churches of Christ around the world and to
support the evangelisation of the entire world.
News releasee, letters to the editor, features, advertising
ordsrs, enrollments, and changes of addreas should be
mailed to The Christian Chronicle, Route 1, Boa 141,
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma mil.
Subacriptiona: a one-time enrollment fee of H per ad-
dress to required. When sending an enrollment foe,
pleaae indicate whether it to a now enrollment or If you
receiving the newspaper, pleaae inchide the address por-
tion ft the paper with your correspondence.
Changes of address: whsn asndi
plsase send the adWsss portion
Ptesse allsw sis weeks for chsageo of address or now
• Ronnie Bruce was recently appointed as
an elder for the Morton Street Church of
Christ, Denison, Texas.
•jar '46
ANCHOR POINT, Ala.-“We were mak-
ing history for Christianity,” summed up
Karen Riehl, a 19-year-old junior radio/tv
major at Abilene Christian University,
Abilene, Texas (ACU).
Karen and her roommate and best
friend, Donna Bowman, also a junior
radio/tv major at ACU, spent part of their
summer near the top of the world at An-
chor Point, Alaska. They helped clear off
the land and operate Radio Station KNLS
broadcasting the gospel to at least one-
third of the world.
’’The New Life Station” (KNLC) is an in-
ternational short wave radio station owned
and operated by World Christian Broad-
casting Corporation. Current programs
and messages are being broadcast in Man-
darin Chinese and Russian into the Soviet
Union and China.
Karen and Donna volunteered to go to
ARLINGTON,
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of campaigns,
campaigners,
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Bartas st Iscturss on Restoration History
and PsrsoMUttas to stadante at the Ea*
Toanoaaa School of Preaching and Mio
■tans in Knosvilta, Tm.
•Geoffrey Ellis, president of Great Irtkes
Christian CoUege, Beamsville, Ontario,
has announced his plans for retirement in
July 19M Ellis has been president for 22
years.
•The Magnolia Bible College Associates
recently raised lit,101 on behalf of the
Magnolia Bible CoUege, Kosciusko, Miss.
This was the largest auction in school’s
history.
•Forty eight members of the Westlink
Church of Christ, Wichita, Kan., recently
committed thsmsahras to soul winning on a
weekly basis at a "Soul Winning
Workshop” conducted by Jala Miller
0-12 Ft. Worth, Texas Lectures.
12- 13 Randy Beckton, cancer victim, will hold a “Coping with Illness Seminar"
at the Silver Spring, Md., Church of Christ, at 100 East Franklin Avenue
13- 15 “Medical Missions Seminar" in Dallas. Texas, with emphasis on orienta-
tion to Nigerian Christian Hospitals. Transportation to the seminar and back to
airport will be provided.
11-17 Christian Training Series sponsored by Center Point Church of Christ, Bir-
mingham, Ala.
22-20 Oklahoma Christian College Lectureship, Okla. City, Okla
20 The Woodward, Okla., Church of Christ, will host an Old Testament Bible
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141, Oklahoma City, Okla. T3111. The editorial atalf roaorooa the right to include
or aacluda any event aubmlttod lor publication, but will malto every effort to
publlah all ovonta of national or International interact
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2 19th Annual Freed-Hardeman $100 Benefit Dinner Paul Faulkner will be
speaker.
7-10 Foyr one-day Church Growth Seminars, Marriott Airport Hotel, Houston,
Texas, Joe Schubert, coordinator.
13 The Church of Christ, Prince Frederick, Md , will host an open house lun-
cheon and singing in their new building.
27-30 The Jonesboro, Ark., Church of Christ will sponsor its “Youth in Action"
rally.
12-21 Annual Central Arkansas Training for Service Series, sponsor Sylvsn
Hills. Jeff Walling, keynote speaker.
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Alaska: two learn radio from KNLS
Alaska in order to get some experience in Karen Riehl, Chicago, III., and Donna Bowman, Lynchburg, Va.,
their educational major area of radio, stand in front of their “home" on the grounds of the World Christian
They raised the money from churches to Broadcasting's station KNLS.
help pay for their travel expenses.
Knowing little of what to expect, they ar- never said anything live over the air, but away and to places missionaries could
rived at Anchor Point only 14 days before concentration was very important,” ex-
the projected date to begin broadcasting, plained Karen. That was sometimes dif- listening!
July 24. The two students went right to ficult since the radio air shift is from 12
work shoveling rocks, using chainsaws a.m. to 7:30 a.m. due to the 11 different KNLS on Aug. 19, which both young
time zones the signal reaches. women called “the high point of their
During one of her shifts, Donna stay,” they returned home: Karen to
and the crisp, clean air. ‘‘The people were remembers playing a particular musical Chicago, and Donna to Lynchburg,
number, along with messages from the Bi- Virginia. Following graduation from ACU,
and they were educated, ble. A few days later a letter came to Sta- they plan to be missionaries for two years
knowing their trades and building their tion KNLS from Australia responding to in the MARK missionary apprentice pro-
own log cabins. They believed in what they the broadcasts and commenting abou» gram.
hearing that particular music. “It really was an exciting summer, ”
“It was a great feeling after I read that said Donna. “We miss the Christians and
radio board was easy for them after radio letter,” said Donna. “I realized from that the sense of adventure," she said, "but the
classes at ACU. “Everything broadcasted small studio the message of Christ was ac- best part was knowing we were part of
was on a prepared reel-to-reel tape. We tually going places thousands of miles reaching out to thousands of people ...”
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Norton, Howard W. & McBride, Bailey. The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 40, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1983, newspaper, December 1, 1983; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1308118/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.