Elim Bible Institute - Oasis Yearbook (Lima, NY)

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SPECIAL STUDENTS BONNIE CAMPBELL Clatskine, Oregon RONALD FOX Sonora, California SYLVIA HARJULA Thomaston, Maine BEA HOLLAND Eugene, Oregon KATHY JACKSON Oceanside, California CAROLYN JONES Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada IRIS KARPPINEN Duluth, Minnesota BOB LEWIS Lima, New York NOT PICTURED CHARLES ELWELL East Bethany, New York DARRYL FAST Vancouver, B.C., Canada NANCY FELKNER Bradford, Massachusetts AMALIA SALIB Cairo, Egypt HARRY SOKOLOFF Santa Rosa, California MARTHA SOKOLOFF Santa Rosa, California DAN STUTZMAN Roseville, Michigan BRIAN TENNY Scottsville, New York TERRY VLIET Bloomington, Illinois 57

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JUNIORS BABS McCOWN Lima, New York MiKE MULVANEY Lakeville, New York JIM ORRED Spicer, Minnesota CHERYL SEABURG Tacoma, Washington MARIANNE STRU1K Rexdale, Ontario, Canada DEBBY STURZEN Graham, Washington CHERITALBOT Stow, Ohio CYNTHIA VEAZEY Garden Grove, California DAN VEAZEY Garden Grove, California HERMAN VEGA New York City, New York TOM VICTOR Bellingham, Washington DAWN WILSON Wolcott, New York DAVE LONG Greensburg, Pennsylvania SHARON LUSK Mount Airy, Maryland MARLA MARSHALL Anaheim, California DAVID MARTIN Central Square, New York 56

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PRESIDENT ' S LETTER Dear Fellow Soldiers — All: Three years of study, self-discipline and develop¬ ment! The same length of time that the twelve spent with the Master and that the converted Saul was re¬ strained in Arabia and Damascus! While learning and maturing processes continue all through life, God draws aside those whom He chooses for a period of initial development. We have had the joyous priv¬ ilege to share this time with you at Elim. While thinking of you and your coming new ven¬ tures in God, I was reminded of Paul’s words in I Corinthians 16:9 “For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.” The door to your three years at Elim is about to close behind you. You cannot go back to relive them. What you have obtained in God or failed to appro¬ priate rests between you and God. But now before you there are open doors of opportunity. There is the open door into the Holiest. The Veil is rent. Access is yours. The Lord invites: “Draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith ...” Since we are commissioned to His harvest, we would be most unwise to attempt His work without receiving His approval and direction, for it is your desire “that He might be glorified.” Paul writing to the church in Corinth refers also to the open door for ministry — opportunities for ef¬ fectual work in Ephesus and on into Macedonia: open doors that made future planning unwise. What was true in Paul’s day is much more so today. “There’s never been a day like this day,” with the spiritual vacuum in the world together with the awakening which is so evident. Doors in every direc¬ tion are swinging open. The renewing of the Holy Spirit is breaking forth on the right hand and on the left. But there are never open doors without opposition. There is an opportunity in every difficulty and a dif¬ ficulty in every opportunity. We all face them. How they are faced explains why some fail (or settle for less) and others succeed. Some hear the call, respond with an “Amen!” They face the open door and then discover the many adversaries. Hesitation comes and delay, and the door is not en¬ tered. You have heard the Master’s call and have felt the urge; you dare not succumb to adversaries, obstacles and difficulties. With Bishop Heber we raise the question and face the open doors: “Can we, whose souls are lighted with wisdom from on high, Can we to men benighted the lamp of life deny? Salvation! Oh salvation! The joyful sound pro¬ claim, Til each remotest nation has learned Messiah’s name. Conflicts there will always be. The Christian service life involves conflict. There is The Gospel that chal¬ lenges to conflict. Soldiers arise! Put your armor on! “The Lord reigneth!” Let us join Him — through the open door before us — “That He might be glorified”! In Harvest bonds,