Biola University - Biolan Yearbook (La Mirada, CA)

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STUDENT MISSIONAFIY UNION Unique Growing Gpportunity Those involved in the SMU could not stress strongly enough what a unique growing opportunity mission work can be. This past year, SMU consisted of over five hundred concerned students. They were all committed either in ac- tual mission work, or in support and prayer. The one thing that makes SMU so unique is that it makes overseas mis- sions available. Students either work overseas with special Summer Teams trained at Biola, or with mission boards. The SMU office provided a Summer Missions Opportunity Hand- book which is the most com- prehensive compilation of mission boards in the world. The SMU also actively involved itself in local outreach programs, in prayer groups, and-as everyone knows-in Friday morning Chapels. A new development this year, which was available to every Biolan, was the Career Missions Placement Service. The program helped students to find an opportunity for mission work ,in their own area of interest. This service is hoped to be made available to the La Mirada community as well. The Edinbourgh '80 Student Consultation on Frontier Missions was another hap- pening. lt was especially important be- cause it focused attention on the fact that the coming generation will serve as the key to the next major thrust of missionary work in the world. Mike Strauss, SMU's president this past year, urged that every student be- come involved in some aspect of SMU. As he puts it, God will use you and mold you, and you will never be the same. 28 Student Missionary Union

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The goal of every chapel is that it would be a spiritually refreshing, en- couraging, and strengthening time for students and faculty. They are times of inspiration, fellowship and instruction, but they are meant to serve primarily as a time when we can worship our Lord. The chapels are designed not to allow students to be spectators, but to in- volve them so that they will worship to- gether as one body. Every chapel emphasizes a particular theme, and often a series of chapels will center on the same theme. The Science Bible Emphasis chapels, the film series, Whatever Happened to the Human Place , and the Cult Evan- gelism Seminars were representative of this. Musical groups and drama teams provided creativity in chapels. Speakers from all over the country provided instruction and inspiration. Cadre chapels-which split chapel time into ten smaller group chapels this Spring Semester-provided a unique time of fellowship. The vision for chapels this year was that they would become vital to the student-applicable to every area of his daily life. Chapel 27

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141 U Elizabeth Ainslie and Dan Rather Not sort through the contents of a box collected in SMU's clothing drive for the Philliplnes. 21 Student Missionary Union Council: Elizabeth Ainslie, Scott Schmachtenberger, Katie Willhite, Mark Stover, Toni Truitt, Ken Joseph, Mike Strauss, Karen Plumb, Paul Hilton, Ellen Zent. 33 Scott Schmachtenberger, Summer Team Coordinator, scouts new locations for possible summer mission evangelism. 41 Dan Rather Not fails to divert SMU President Mike Strauss from his pressing duties. if -tw . 1, 6 . Q, 3 .. E2f2axt 1:1 :aw f hm.,m1.. -'--'vw.s....., ., we Student Missionary Union 29