Numidia Mennonite Bible School - Reflector Yearbook (Numidia, PA)

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CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP The sfudy of Chrisfian Sfewardship is a very challenging one. If we as Chrisfians accusfom ourselves fo fhe fhoughf fhaf all belongs fo God, fhen we have fhe responsi- bilify fo use all fhafcomes info our possession in ways fhaf will be pleasing fo God. We need fo give ourselves over fo God and as sfewards we need nof despair if if is only a Iiffle we can do for him. As sfewards of God we are fesfed nof so much by 'rhe amounf we give, as by fhe way we handle whaf we receive. This class has been very challenging fo me because we are responsible as fo how we use our fime, our money, our falenfs, 'and every- fhing God has given us. A -Leon Marfin EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES' REVIVALS Godfs spokesman fo us was Brofher Elmer Grove. He was faifhful in showing us whaf God is offering fo us. God speaks fo us 'rhrough His Word which shows us our' sinful condifion. If is wise 'ro fake care of our sins in fhe days of our youfh. We can live a vicforious Chrisfian life when we expose and confess our sins. We need fo live for Chrisf insfead of self. When we do fhis if will be evidenf by our way of life. When we are yielded fo God, He will reveal His will fo us. Those who are living in obedience fo God. have a glorious hope for fhe fufure. As new commifmenfs were made fo Chrisf, peace flooded our souls and we were encour- aged fo a closer walk wifh God. ' -Mary Alice McDorman it-u 2nd TERM REVIVALS Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Thou arf fhe Poffer! I am fhe clay. Mould me and make me affer Thy will. While I am waifing, yielded and sfill. This was fhe song on our lips and fhe prayer of our hearfs during fhe inspiring mes- sages 'rhaf God senf fo us fhrough Brofher Paul Ebersole. The spirif of revival could be sensed as many sfudenfs redicafed fheir lives and made new commifmenfs fo Chrisf. 3 I This peace fhaf fhe world cannof give can be ours only when we have given up self and allowed Chrisf fo have full confrol of our lives. We were again reminded of fhe need of fhe crucified life, one fhaf is spirif confrolled, which is essenfial for spirifual growfh. The af- fifude of everyone living fhe crucified life should be: Lord, whaf will Thou have me fo do? We were encouraged fo sfrive for a gen- uine faifh. a faifh fhaf follows God's will. Evi- dences of fhis faifh were observed in Moses' life. A message on fhe Lord's Refurn was pre- senfed and we were admonished fo live a pure, holy, and diligenf life. Leff wifh us as a challenge was: Where will you spend efernify? -Karen Rhodes n1nin1g gg REVIVAL MEETINGS , . We were privileged fo enjoy fhe effecfs of rivers of living wafer from fhe wells of salvafion in our revival meefings, wifh Brofher Isaac Sensenig as evangelisf. We were broughf face 'ro face wifh many pracfical scripfural frufhs. We as humans are nafurally evaders in facing sprifiual issues, be- cause of fhe fear of whaf facing issues square- ly will cosf fhe self life. However, if is only as we face issues honesfly, fhaf we can experience 'rhe deep peace of God. Our brofher also challenged us fo be whaf God- wanfs us fo be 'as a vifal link in fhe chain of His greaf redempfive program.

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SONG LEADERSHIP . . . l will sing unlo lhe Lord, for he halh lriumphed gloriously . . Exodus l5:l. Parl of lhe heaven on earlh lhal lhe re- deemed of lhe Lord enjoy now, is good old- fashioned singing of hymns wilh deep meaning. While congregalional singing is basically for lhe honor and glory of God, il is also for lhe edificalion of lhe sainls. One of lhe prerequisiles of good singing is people who are living in Chrislian viclory, and anolher is a well lrained enlhusiaslic song leader. Brolher Aaron Weaver lried lo leach lwelve of us fellows lhe basic principles of song leadership. Slumbling along, ralher off-key, and shak- ing visibly, some of us began lo lead our firsl songs. Progress was made bul we all cerlainly realize lhe need 'for more progress. - Mosl imporlanl, Brolher Aaron laughl us whal kind. of songs lo sing. .Also we spenl some lime on lhe allilude and personalily of lhe song leader, bul mosl of all we were impressed wilh lhe responsibilily we would have in lead- ggdlhe lhoughls of our congregalions loward o . A r -Slephen Ebersole l CHRISTIAN WRITING And I have filled him wilh lhe spirif of God, in wisdom, and in underslanding, and in knowledge and inall manner of workmanship. Ex. 3I:3. Time and lime again Brolher Glenn Sensenig impressed upon us lhal lhe abilily lo conceive lhoughls, pul lhem in lhe wrillen form in such a manner lhal lhey will allracl and keep lhe allenlion of lhe reader, and convey a meaningful message is from lhe Lord, and nol of ourselves. , Sound reading expands our menlal horizon. The need for wrilers is increasing wilh more people reading and people reading more. The firsl lhree requisiles for wriling are a vision of lhe need, prayer, and burden. We learned. slep by slep how lo conslrucl narralives and arlicles. Conslruclive crilicism in lhe classroom was beneficial in leaching us proficiency in lhe minislry of lhe wrillen word for lhe furlherance of lhe Gospel. -Pauline Seibel CHRISTIA HOME A class of aboul enly-five sfudenls mel wilh John Sensenig as leacher, lo sludy a course on The Chrislian I-lome. Wilh each one giving his lhoughl we hadran inleresling class. Firsl we discussed 'a lesson on courlship, and husband and wife relalionship. We dis- covered lhalin order for a couple lo live logelher lhey musl agree in every area of life before slarling a home. The home is a nursery lhrough which each individual passes lhrough on lhe way lo heaven or hell. I ' A Children are lhe fruil of love, nol lusls. Children are an herifage of lhe Lord. which will bind a husband and wife logelher like- nolhing else can. Thy wife shall be as a fruilful vine by lhe sides of lhine house. Thv children like olive planls 'round aboul lhy lable. A The home musl guard againsl delrimenlal influences, in lhe form of worldly books, rec- ords, elc. The church is no slronger lhan lhe homes lhal compose il. 1. The class gave us a grealer desire lo have slrong Chrislian Homes. I g -Arlen Mack l PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING Some leachers have more nalural abilily lo leach lhan olhers. Every feacher has re- ceived help from olhers, and everyone musl pul forlh an efforl lo 'make himself a leacher. This is a subiecl nol only for lhose who are lhinking aboul leaching grade school bul also proves helpful lo lhe Sunday School leacher. We learned lhal lo leach. one musl firsl speak lo lhe menlalily of lhe pupil, lhen lhe per- sonalily, finally lhe spirilual area of lhe pupil. We were laughl how lo use aids, queslions. elc. We also had lhe privilege of lislening lo olhers in our class give illuslralions. and how lhey would make lhe poinl of conlacl, and frame queslions from lhe Bible. This sludy showed lhe imporlance of lhe Sunday School leacher, and we never know when God will ll l lh l onsibilily. ' Ca Us O G resp ' -Blanche. Sauder 30

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We also received much Tood Tor ThoughT as our broTher presenTed guiTe pracTical TruTh To us, relaTive To The very real problems oT world- liness which are presenTly being Taced by The church. He challenged us To be a living dem- onsTraTion oT -holiness beTore The world. Many oT us gained vicTories in ChrisT which we had never known beTore. The Lord is TaiTh- Tul even Today in honoring His eTernal promises To Those who honor Him. We TrusT The revival Tires will conTinue To burn wiThin us ThaT we mighT conTinue To burn ouT Tor Him. , -J. Eldon DeTweiler .1 111 -ul V.S.-I.W. ORIENTATION The weekend oT January 29-30, a V.S.-l.W. OrienTaTion was held here aT Bible School which was inspiring To everyone. SaTurday evening, Paul Freed spoke To us on, The Powers ThaT Be are Ordained- oT God. We musT realize God has ordained Those in auThoriTy, and our response should be ThaT oT submission and obedience in all areas oT liTe. When auThoriTy is reiecTed and despised, wheTher iT be in The church or The sTaTe, The resulT is conTusion. We should be ThankTul Tor our leaders and pray Tor Them. STanley Wine Tollowed wiTh The message on, Blending Personal InTeresTs inTo Harmonious Group Living. Some basics Tor group har- mony are: lll A Transformed liTe in spiriT and aTTiTude, l2l Proper and Biblical organiza- Tron oT The group, Sound rulers and dis- crrpline, and l4l A muTual conT'idence in each o er. On Sunday morning, Aaron Shank broughT a message on, Old TesTamenT Wars and New TesTamenT Peace. ln The Qld TesTamenT, 'God wasn'T non-resisTanT. He permiTTed Them To kill: buT Jesus was non-resisTanT aT Calvary and as a resulT, we are To pracTice This Today. Sunday aTTernoon, James Zehr, Ed Yoder, and Eldon DeTweiler TesTiTied oT Their exper- lences while in service. Following This, Daniel Kraybill spoke on Being ForTiTied AgainsT UnapparenT TempTaTions. God is TaiThTul aT. all Times and will deliver us Trom TempT- aTrons. We musT accepT His Word by TaiTh and seT our goals on eTernal Things and noT Temporal Things. Sunday evening, Harry Erb broughT a mes- Sage on Philippians l:l2. Some essenTial principles on The TurTherance oT The gospel are: lll A servanT of Jesus ChrisT, l2l Concern Tor oThers, l3l lvlusT be seT Tor The deTense oT The gospel, l4l ConTidence in God's leading- ready To deparT or ready To sTay, l5l lvlusT noT be ashamed To magniTy ChrisT, lol Live a con- sisTanT liTe, and l7l We musT be ready To suTTer persecuTion Tor The cause oT ChrisT. We musT realize The repuTaTion of ChrisT depends on usg iT we are ashamed of Him, He will be ashamed oT us. -Gloria Sauder ..l -i-u-11- GOSPEL TEAMS And we know ThaT all Things work TogeTher Tor good To Them ThaT love God, To Them who are The called according To his purpose. Romans 8:28. EighT Gospel Teams were eagerly anTici- paTing February I9Th and 2OTh. lTwould be a Time Tor us To share The Gospel wiTh oTher Tellow ChrisTians in diTTerenT areas. BuT . . . The Lord had oTher plans. Friday nighT and SaTurday senT beauTiTul whiTe snow. Due To This, The Gospel Teams were canceled-. God didn'T leave The eTTorTs puTTorTh in preparing Tor The Topics and messages in vain. Those of us aT Bible School raTher were Ted Trom The Word, eiTher Tor Chapel or Evening Prayer Circle. HalT oT The Gospel Teams chose The Theme The Risen Life. Even Though The Theme was The same, new TruThs were broughT ouT each Time which Ted our never-dying souls. - -Joann Weaver -4-g i - i BIBLE READING AND PRAYER Monday Through Friday we meT in The chapel To engage in a period oT Bible reading. BroTher Ben Eshbach usually had charge of This period. Each person Took his Turn in reading a senTence Trom The Word oT God, regardless if ThaT senTence was only parT oT a verse or iT iT was several verses long. BuT . . . if some unTorTunaTe person made a misTake and iT was deTecTed by BroTher Ben or one oT The sTudenTs, he was asked To reread ThaT verse unTil he cor- recTed his error. For example, iT someone read lv1aTThew lO:37 He ThaT loveTh noT TaTher or moTher more Than me is noT worThy of me . 32