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

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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

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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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, . . g by adding only one word, nOT , he would be changing The enTire meaning. ATTer reading a porTion Trom The Bible, we were oTTen given The opporTuniTy To give our TesTimony or To bring ouT a verse ThaT lm- pressed us. This was a source oT encourage- menT To hear oThers Tell oT vicTories won and hear whaT The Lord had done in Their lives. Toward The close oT The period we shared our pra er burdens and Then dispersed To previoushf assigned rooms To pray. As we passed Trom The chapel To meeT wiTh our group To pray, one needed To Think buT Tor a momenT To realize The Tremendous power of uniTed prayer in behalf of Those requesTs which were given. The eTTecTual TervenT prayer of a righTeous man availeTh much. James 5:!6b. P -Carolyn ShulTz EXTENSION' COMMITTEE The exTension commiTTee consisTed of Two or Three Bible school sTudenTs wiTh The aid of BroTher Glenn and SisTer JaneT Sensenig. The aim of This commiTTee was To lead ouT in The TurTherance of The gospel in This com- muniTy. One Thing was To provide places To hold coTTage meVeTings on Sunday aTTernoon in which mosT of The sTudenTs Took parT. AnoTher parT oT our program was preparing To pass ouT inviTaTions Tor The gospel services and music programs. As wiTh our Lord, we have been meT wiTh varied recepTions. May each of us be TaiThTul in our parT of exTending God's kingdom. -Fred Zimmerman A CHORUS We as ChrisTians Tind ThaT iT is easy To sing when our hearTs are in Tune wiTh God. God Tells us To rejoice in The Lord always. Singing, Then, leTs ThaT rejoicing ouT in sound. Maybe our hearTs are bubbling over in praise: iT comes ouT in chorus period. Maybe SaTan is boThering us: singing helps. Maybe we jusT need livening up: chorus may be The answer. Each session is opened wiTh prayer. Then we sing songs BroTher Aaron has picked. On 33 new songs, iT is easy To concenTraTe on noTes and noT The message. This is a problem all The Time-To keep our minds on The message. We do know, Though, ThaT The noTes TiT The mes- sage. We sing songs oT TesTimony, songs of prayer, songs of ioy and praise, and songs of mourning. May God help us noT To sing a lie during This chorus period. We do more Than make a joyful noise. We wanT To send God a sweeT smelling ex- pression Trom The inside and sing a joyful melody ThaT is pleasing To The ear on The ouT- side. ' -ChesTer C. Weaver, Jr. THE COOK'S CORNER We were glad To be of service In our MasTer's gospel Team Serving Tood To l-lis dear child-ren Whom The Saviour has redeemed. We were noT enrolled in classes As They searched The book of books, BuT were glad To serve The MasTer ln The corner Tor The cooks. Our desire is ThaT each sTudenT WiTh a song of joy will go To proclaim The glorious gospel ln The earTh's lasT ebbing Tlow. -RuTh MarTin The Lord has been good in supplying The Tood, or money To buy iT. The TirsT nine weeks we served l9,652 in- dividual meals. May The Lord bless The many who were willing To share of Their blessings and help make The work here a rich experience. We expecTed- a Two day vacaTion when everyone planned To go away on gospel Teams. Snow began To Tall Friday evening. The nexT morning we were snowbound wiTh I22 people To Teed. Our minds wandered To The donaTed food ThaT came in The previous week. Someone said, This is The Lord's work. He meeTs every need. ' AnoTher example oT This would be The Times we TelT we could- use cerTain Toods. Per- haps The same day someone would walk in To ask, could you use cupcakes? We assured Them we could wiThouT sounding Too anxious. -LesTer Miller