North Central University - Archive Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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QQ . . . a Heart for all People. B y Tim Nordquist A T Total commitment to God includes total commitment to bringing other people to Jesus. Neither commitment can be neglected if we are to truly be men and women of God. This was the message burned into our hearts by this year's Missions Convention A Heart for God, a Heart for All Peo- ple . Godls intense love for people was emphasized. As the students sang We've a Story to Tell to the Nations , the faculty and administration paraded into chapel dressed in clothing of foreign cultures. A collage of posters of people from various countries set the scene. They all helped us to look at people in other parts of the world not as statistics or non-entities, but rather as human beings just like us. Peo- ple whom Jesus died for. The convention's main speaker, Sam Johnson, quickly won his way into the heart's of the students. We could sense his intensity, and his message spoke directly to us. He challenged us to pursue God. just like the woman pushing to touch Jesus. Missionary Dwight Palmquist spoke on the last day of the convention and shared his love for the people of the Philipines. Together all the messages seemed to bring home the theme, A Heart for God, a Heart for All People . The Lord seemed to be saying to us that if we truly love Him with all our heart, we will naturally have a consuming burr den for all the people of the world who are apart from Him It was so neat to see the many students who came to the evening services early to pray and prepare their hearts One could sense the air of expectancy and surrender. a: many were gathered at the altars following the message. II was obvious that God was doing great things in hearts oi people destined to change our world. Following the final service of the convention, there was an all-night prayer meeting. Early on in the night, the film, The Wait of the World was shown. It helped us to see how needful the world is for the Gospel, and it caused us to realize that much of the world is being neglected by the church. The Missions Convention stirred us all. It challenged us to pursue God more intensely, and to give ourselves more sacrificially to the fulfulling of the Great Commission. lt caused our hearts to burn with more compassion for unsaved people. May the fruit of the convention be that we would be db- termined to reach the world with the Gospel in our generation. May we be a people with a heart for God, and a heart for all people. Amen! T l6-Student Life Ethnic costumes help to emphasize missions.

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Is it Love or R Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. I John 3.48. How do we love someone in deed and in truth? The Student Life Department at- tempted to answer this and many other questions with a number of topics presented at this year's Dating-Relation- ship Seminar. The main speakers were Dr. James Bradford. Dr. Carolyn Tennant, Mrs. Pat Argue, and Rev. William l8-Dating-Relationship Seminar Photo submitted by Mark Collins. ii 2; g Wt f: , m. vrn omance? . . . B y Doug Macho wicz Crew with various topics directed towards singles and married couples as well as to the individual genders. With such topics as Loving the MentWomen in your Life , and Everything you wanted to know about relationships but were afraid to ask , the seminar promised many a lively discussion. ABOVE: Carolyn Tennant opens the seminar with some humor. LEFT: Mark Brunn gives some personal testimony on being engaged.