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

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BOYS' DORM LIFE Ring, Ring, six o'clock. There are a few squeaks and a few groans and the rubbing of many eyes as the lights are turned on. Everything is quiet for fifteen minutes as we all spend some time with God before we begin the activities of the day. The 6: 15 bell seems to put the dorm into gear. It starts the hustle and bustle of the day as we all get freshened up and find our way to the dining room for breakfast. As we live together, we learn to know each other better and share many of'our convictions with each other. We are blessed again and again as we find that we are truly of like precious faith. Living together in one room with some forty boys is an experience that helps to knock off the rough edges of a person's char- acter. The times when everyone is seem- ingly in a hurry helps us develop the needed patience with one another in life's exper- iences. I was thankful for this experience and will hold many precious memories of it in the future. -PETER KRAHN 1 The Beauty of Jesus in Our Lives Comes from Within. EXTENSION COMMITTEE Go ye therefore into the highways, and bid them come in. It was our responsibility, as a committee to organize the passing out of invitations for revival services and closing programs. Also, included in this, was the contacting of homes in the re a a for Sunday afternoon cottage meetings. We also held services in some nursing homes in the com- munity. Many of the folks expressed ap- preciation for our coming, but God alone knows how many hearts were truly drawn closer to Himself. Nevertheless it was a blessing to our own hearts and it challenged us as Christian young people to be pre- pared to testify for our Lord in both word and deed. -TIMOTHY N. MARTIN 37 CHORUS . . . Teaching and admonishing one an- other in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Colossians 3:16. Third period of the day, music could be heard from the chapel as we students en- deavored to blend our voices together in songs. Most of our songs were taken from THE CHRISTIAN HYMNARY. This period of forty-five minutes was spent singing old and new hymns, many of which we had never sung before. As our lives are in right relationship with God, we will want to express our feelings through singing. As we sing together, we do not want to think only of the beauty of the sound as our voices harmonize together, but also to the depth of the words the authors of the hymns are portraying. As the words pass from our lips, it is a challenge to ask ourselves this question, Do I really mean these words I'm singing? How thankful we should be to God who has given us voices in which we can praise Him, through the songs we sing together! -ARLENE RESSLER THE CULINARY DEPARTMENT Throughout the Bible, we read of men of God being concerned with natural things, such as eating. Well, the students here at Bible school were no exception. It seemed they all had a good appetite, and we were glad to try to satisfy it with that which the brotherhood so abundantly supplied. Our days were busy from 6:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Some days we had a break in the forenoon or afternoon, but usually we were on duty twelve hours. We were always glad to see visitors even if their presence caused extra planning. Often- times this meant additional food brought in, and we really appreciated that. The average served the first six weeks was 12.0, for three meals a day. We count it a privilege to have been able to serve the Lord in this work What a blessin to meet - g new faces and share the rich fellowship of the saints! -JOHN AND NAoM1 Srovnn Page 16'Up Row 11. Doris Milli! Sharon Rolf Colette Eb? Ruth Torkelsf Janet Ebb' ROW 2: Wanda Zllflm Ruth Mellrngr Anna Snider Bonita Eshlen Miriam BUYU Eunice Burkh ROW 3: Robert Horst David Weave: Nolan Martin Alvis Bender Ronald Horst Page 16-Mi. ROW 1: Mary Martin Roseann Deir, ROW 2: Lois Sauder Esther Herr f 1 Elma Weaver Anne Manjn Fern Eby ROW 3: QM Marlin LOW? .Grove H3135 - an giarla Mmm ani - DOIII13 ZEIQM Harold Good ROXV 4 : D ,- Jigs Smemr Lyn Swim' -n Mani J -A es Landis

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being honest with myself, weeping for past failure, praying for present forgiveness, anticipating future victory. Revival is: seeing a fellow student come up from the council room to the dorm, Bible in hand, with a new light on his or her face! -MARTHA NIGHSWANDER VS ORIENTATION The VS Orientation, the weekend of Feb- ruaiy 2, 3, brought to us many rich blessings. A few of the highpoints of the messages are as follows: 1. Voluntarism - A Quality of the New Life If voluntarism is not a quality of the new life, it is not genuine. Our Lord Jesus is our greatest example of voluntarism as He did willingly all things which pleased His Father. 2. Causes Worthy of our Contribution Many down-to-earth truths were pointed out which we need to follow in order to be of service to God and our fellow man. It is not only the great things as man would see it, but the little things we respond to which makes one great in the sight of a Holy God. 3. Reaffirming Biblical Nonresistance This message pointed out how that we need to pattern after our Lord's nonresistant life. As children of God, the love of Christ within has taken away our fear, but they who follow this world and know not our Lord are fearful, resisting one another, and use any means to protect themselves, their families and their possessions. 4. Reviewing Our History of Nonre- sistance Many experiences of the past in which our forefathers practiced and taught this Bible Principle were re- called. Truly we are enjoying the many blessings of the Gospel today because of what our Anabaptist forefathers suffered. 5. Expressing Nonresistance in Everyday ie It is only as we leave God control our tongues and emotions that we can attain to true nonresistance in every- day life. 6. Consumed on the Altar of Service Genesis 22,. the account of Abra- ham offering his son Isaac on the altar, was used as a basis for this message. Only as we dedicate the little, seeming- ly Uf11mP0ff3Hf things, can we exper- ience full consecration. God along knows how to use us so He will receive honor and glory through our service, but only as we lay ourselves on the altar in full resignation can He use us. May these messages help us to be faith- ful to this holy calling and willingly be con- sumed on the Altar of Service. -HOMER AMSTUTZ GIRLS' DORM The 6:00 bell rings to tell us another new day is here. Sleepily each girl reaches for her Bible to spend the first fifteen minutes of the day with her Maker. At 6:15 the bunks start to shake and screech as some of the girls hurry over to the lavatory. Lois, you were talking in your sleep again last night, states a voice from across the bunks. Did any of you hear Rhoda come up last night? asked someone else. Sharon knocked down a pan of water off the window sill and it started dripping through the floor down on Rhoda's face. . . . These are some of the typical remarks of the morning. Throughout the day there can be seen a group of girls crowded around a bunk shar- ing their views and values on life or discuss- ing the class they have just come from. There is plenty of activity in the dorm at times. Sometimes we get so involved in our talk that we have to be reminded that it's still study period. There are also those pleasant Good nights that come from Sister Anna or Sis- ter Luella. We all have memories of singing to the boys after lights out, or laying on our bunks d hearin the notes of a song floating an g , across from the boys dorm. -Doius ANDERSON 36

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BIBLE SCHOOL ROSTER FIRST THREE WEEK STUDENTS Page 16-Upper Picture ROW 1: Doris Miller Sharon Nolt Celette Eby Ruth Torkelson Janet Eby ROW 2: Wanda Zimmerman Ruth Mellinger Anna Snider Bonita Eshleman Miriam Burkholder Eunice Burkholder ROW 3: Robert Horst David Weaver Nolan Martin Alvis Bender Ronald Horst C4 weeksj Page 16-Middle Picture ROW 1: Mary Martin Roseann Deiter ROW 2: Lois Sauder Esther Herr flst 8: 3rd 3 weeksj Erma Weaver Anne Martin Fern Eby ROW 3: John Martin Dixie Grove Lorraine Martin Carla Martin Mary Jane Weaver Donna Good Harold Good ROW 4: David Sensenig James Siegrist Lynn Martin Crista Martin Ellis Kropf James Landis R.D. 1 Box 249 Blackville South Carolina 2981 1 , , 7 ED' 21 BOX 60, Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania 17563 -D- 1, BOX 231, Westover, Maryland 21871 BOX 133, Duchess, Alberta, Canada R- D- 5, Box 408, Hagerstown, Maryland 21740 445 Oberlin Road, Middletown, Penns lvania 17057 R.D. 6, Box 50, Lancaster, Pennsylvaiiia 17602 1089 College Avenue, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22801 R.D. 2, Box 33A, Waynesboro, Georgia 30830 R.D. 1, Myerstown, Pennsylvania 17067 R.D. 1, Myerstown, Pennsylvania 17067 Box 6, Hawkesville, Ontario, Canada R.D. 2, Quarryville, Pennsylvania 17566 R.D. 2, Box 100A, Knoxville, Maryland 21758 R.D. 1, Glenfield, New York 13342 Box 6, Hawkesville, Ontario, Canada R.R. 1, Wallenstein, Ontario, Canada NOB250 R.D. 1, Manheim, Pennsylvania 17545 1301 North Franklin St., Wilmington, Delaware 19806 R.D. 3, Ephrata, Pennsylvania 17522 5 Box 386, Goshen, Indiana 46526 R.R. 1, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2K2B3 R.D. 5 Box 408, Hagerstown, Maryland 21740 7 R.D. , R.R. 1, St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada R.R 2, New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada NOB2G0 6, Box 124, Hagerstown, Maryland 21740 R.D 6 Box 124, Hagerstown, Maryland 21740 1 2 2 R.D. ' 9 R.D. , Quarryville, Pennsylvania 17566 R.R. , Hensall, Ontario, Canada R.R. , Hensall, Ontario, Canada R.D. , Box 353, Lititz, Pennsylvania 17543 1 R.D. 1, Box 94, Bethel, Pennsylvania 19507 6 .D. , B 124, Hagerstown, Maryland 21740 R.D. 6, B31 124, Hagerstown, Maryland 21740 Box 253 Duchess, Alberta, Canada TOJOZO R.D, 1, Jonestown, Pennsylvania 17038 38