Thursday, October 10, 2002 TODAY
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- Office of student affairs presents October chapel programs
- Six tips to avoid cyberstalkers
- Mother of Ralph S. Watts Jr., passes on September 25
- Joe Melashenko Singers to be featured in concert on October 20
- Innerweave: The Wholeness Story
- Faculty Notes
Office of student affairs presents October chapel programs
Loma Linda University chapel programs for the month of October will feature speakers from the local area and from Loma Linda University.
Randy L. Roberts, DMin, is the featured speaker for the week of devotion, held October 7 through 11.
Dr. Roberts is senior pastor of University Church of the Seventh-day Adventists, and is an adjunct associate professor of theology and ministry at the Faculty of Religion.
Since 1994, as a member of the Faculty of Religion, Dr. Roberts has worked closely with University students, helping them to establish a spiritual aspect to their health-care training. Dr. Roberts was named senior pastor in September, 2000.
Prior to coming to Loma Linda, Dr. Roberts was a pastor in Texas.
The chapel program for October 16 is set to feature Ruben Escalante, principal of Orangewood Academy, Garden Grove, California.
Chapel for Wednesday, October 24 will be the Convocation Chapel given by Richard H. Hart, MD, DrPH.
Dr. Hart is chancellor and chief executive officer of Loma Linda University. He was born in 1945 at the Loma Linda Sanitarium and Hospital, and received his early education in Washington at Upper Columbia Academy in Spangle, and Walla Walla College in College Place. While at Walla Walla, he became the first student missionary from the Seventh-day Adventist Church to serve outside of North America.
In 1966, prior to his first year in medical school, he married Judy Osborne. The Harts now have three daughters: Chandra, Briana, and Kari.
From 1972 to 1976, Dr. Hart served in Tanzania. As a population intern from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, he developed the department of community health in Moshi. During this time, he co-authored Child Health, a book for mid-level health professionals in Africa. In 1974, a USAID contract with LLU took him to Dar es Salaam, where he was chief of party to the Ministry of Health and helped to develop a maternal and child health program.
Dr. Hart has served Loma Linda University since 1972, including as chair of the department of health sciences, director of the Center for Health Promotion, chair of the School of Medicine department of preventive medicine, and, since 1990, dean of the School of Public Health.
Dr. Hart's vision extends to the farthest reaches of the globe. His early involvement in student missionary work was key in the development of Students for International Mission Service and Social Action Community Health System—a local low-cost health-care system for the medically underserved. He is also president of Adventist Health International, a new organization created to manage health services in developing countries.
Loma Linda University chapel programs are sponsored by the office of student affairs and are held in the University Church of Seventh-day Adventists on the Loma Linda campus. Programs are held every Wednesday from 8:10 to 9:00 a.m.
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Six tips to avoid cyberstalkers
Cyberstalkers open key information about their targets from the victims themselves. Many internet users give out personal information online that they would never give to a stranger standing next to them at a bus stop. And yet, that is essentially what they are doing when filling out profiles for internet service providers or in chat rooms. These profiles often list a user's phone number and address. Frequently, this data is not kept private, but is available online to any net-savvy surfer. So here are some tips from the experts on how to surf safely and avoid cyberstalkers:
- Check a site's privacy policy before filling out any online
form. Find out who has access to the information and if the data can
be sold. Some privacy policies are coyly worded. So if the site doesn't
explicitly spell out its policy, think twice before registering your
information.
- Don't provide any personal information on your own website.
Consider that photos with school logos or other identifying marks can
make you vulnerable. A cyberstalker can search databases on the net
to locate more information about you using just your last name and the
city you live in. So avoid uploading photos that could compromise your
anonymity.
- Many databases and online directories compile addresses, e-mail addresses,
and phone numbers. Some even provide reverse lookup so that all a stalker
needs is an e-mail address in order to find out who you are and where
you live. Driver's license data from some states is available
online, too. So try to remove yourself from as many of these databases
as possible. Start by searching for information about yourself. If you
can find it, so can someone else.
- Many cyberstalking cases arise when users break online etiquette rules
in chat rooms or discussion boards. So don't risk angering others.
Know the "netiquette" rules specific to the site before
drawing attention to yourself.
- When necessary, surf anonymously. Use a free service like Anonymizer
(www.anonymizer.
com) to keep anyone from tracing your internet service provider. And when e-mailing a stranger, use an anonymous account, like Hotmail.
- Only enter chat rooms with people you know offline. If you must join a chat room where you don't know the participants, avoid using screen names with provocative or gender-specific words.
~Adapted from
Reader's Digest.com
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Mother of Ralph S. Watts Jr., passes on September 25
Mildred Watts, mother of Ralph S. Watts Jr., former Loma Linda University Board of Trustees advisor, and president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, died on Wednesday, September 25, after several years of ill health. A private graveside service was held Friday, September 27, at Montecito Cemetery in Loma Linda.
Mrs. Watts was the widow of Ralph S. Watts Sr., long-time missionary and administrator in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Pastor Watts died in 1994.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial gifts be made to the ADRA International fund for the "Ralph S. Watts Memorial Library" at Solusi College in Africa. Ralph Watts Sr. helped establish Solusi College while he was president of the former South African Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Under the leadership of Ralph S. Watts Jr., president of ADRA International for 16 years, ADRA has developed into an agency active in more than 125 countries and provides development programs and disaster relief aid to more than 16 million people annually.
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Joe Melashenko Singers to be featured in concert on October 20
The Joe Melashenko Singers, a family group of 14 individuals including from three generations, will be presented on Sunday night, October 20, as part of the Calimesa Community Concert Series.
The program will begin at 7:00 p.m. and will be held in the Calimesa Seventh-day Adventist Church, Fourth and Myrtlewood Streets, Calimesa.
For more than four decades the Joe Melashenko Family singers have been singing together and presenting concerts all over the world with their Christ-centered music.
Co-sponsoring the program will be two international radio-television groups—the Voice of Prophecy and the Quiet Hour.
Heading up the music group is Joe Melashenko and his wife Ann, with their five sons and wives along with six grandchildren.
The group just recently returned from a 12-concert tour of western Canada. The opening concert was at the Southern Gospel Quartet Convention in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, before an audience of 5,000.
The group has now performed in 20 countries throughout the world. Mother and father Melashenko raised their five sons on the wheat fields of western Canada where Joe's Russian-born parents had homesteaded. Even though they were poor, the parents decided that each of their sons should have a good education.
The five brothers—Rudy, Eugene, Dallas, Joedy, and Lonnie—never knew a time when music was not a part of their family. By the time the boys were 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 years old, respectively, they were singing in four-part harmony.
Lonnie Melashenko, the oldest of the family sons, is the current director of the Voice of Prophecy radio and television program. The second son, Joedy, lives in Redlands and is part of the international radio-television program, The Quiet Hour. Dallas is a teacher in Orlando, Florida; Eugene is a pastor in Pennsylvania; and Rudy is a teacher in northern California.
The group recently released a new CD titled "Melashenko Family
Singers Generations," consisting of songs of three generations of
Melashenkos.
There is no admission charge to the program; however, a freewill offering
will be taken during the program. Doors will open at 6:15 p.m.
For additional information about the concert series, call (909) 795-4960, or check the church's website at <www.calimesasda.com>.
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Innerweave: The Wholeness Story
Each year about this time, the Faculty of Religion full-time faculty meets in a cabin overlooking Lake Arrowhead for their annual fall colloquium. The morning is spent in retreat fashion thinking of ways to deepen personal spirituality, in preparation for helping students who come to Loma Linda University to deepen theirs.
This year the sharing discussion centered around two articles, one by Mark S. Burrows, professor of the history of Christianity at Andover Newton Theological School titled "To Taste With The Heart," on the deep reading of Scripture; the second article is one written by Robert Mulholland, professor of New Testament at Asbury Seminary, on ways of reading Scripture.
Both articles are concerned with how we listen for "God's word" as found in the Bible. Mark Burrows appeals for a listening beyond reading for information to a more transformational reading as the reader listens with the heart, with all that is within us spiritual, as well as intellectual. Robert Mulholland offers a way to do this by harkening back to a method used early in Christian tradition, namely lectio divina, 'spiritual reading."
The method suggested, and reiterated here is as follows:
Silencio—"time given to silence the grasping, controlling, manipulating dynamics of our being." Just be quiet for a few minutes before you read.
Lectio—reading a chosen text with intentional openness…"in which we can hear the voice of God speaking deep wholeness into our life," rather than trying to merely gain control of the text through reading for information intellectually only.
Meditatio—pausing to think about what we hear as we read, allowing God, by His Spirit, "to discover what God is saying to us at those points of our being where we are not yet what God wants us to be, and, further, what we can become in Him."
Oratio—this is our response to what we read and hear that affects our lives, a deep cry of our heart to God…it is "characterized by integrity…it is the honest expression of our thought, feeling, and desire to God, the outpouring of deep speaking unto deep."
Contemplatio—"this is an active yielding of ourselves to God, waiting in stillness, communing without words, pliable in God's hands and at His timing, responsive to whatever He chooses to give us, impress us with, or do with us. It moves beyond the time of reading, meditating, praying into the ebb and flow of our daily lives…as we seek to yield ourselves to the transforming presence of the Spirit."
Incarnatio—growing out of the above listening and responding experience our life begins to be shaped more and more by openness and obedience to God, and His Word. The shaping is not for us alone, what happens in us works itself out in sharing of our lives with others in saving, healing, loving ways. Those near us will note the difference, and will be attracted to God through us.
The above is not intended to be the final answer on how to listen to the Word of God in the Bible. Because so few seem to spend time with the Bible it is offered as a way of getting back to the basics in spirituality which can make one's life so much richer and fruitful.
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Faculty Notes
Zaida Cordero-MacIntyre PhD, presented the paper titled "Changes in Bone Mineral Density with Weight Loss in Obese Postmenopausal Women" at the 23rd International Council for Physical Activity and Fitness Research held in Tartu, Estonia, September 5 to 8, 2002. Dr. Cordero-MacIntyre also chaired one of the oral scientific presentations sessions.
Floyd Hansen, DDS, MA, assistant professor, department of oral diagnosis, radiology, and pathology, School of Dentistry, has returned from a mission to Armenia made at the request of a United States-based charitable foundation, The Howard Karagheusian Commemorative Corporation. While in Armenia, Dr. Hansen shared radiological information with staff dentists. After visiting dental clinics in North and South Yerevan administered by the foundation, he reported to the foundation about their strengths, as well as equipment and supply needs.
Jay S. Kim, PhD, professor of biostatistics, educational services department, School of Dentistry, attended the Joint Statistics Meeting, 2002, held in New York City August 11 to 15. This meeting, sponsored by American Statistical Association, attracted about 4,000 statisticians from around the world. Dr. Kim chaired the session on sampling techniques.
Quint Nicola, DDS, assistant professor, oral diagnosis, pathology, and radiology, School of Dentistry, recently visited some of the Seventh-day Adventist mission clinics in the Inter-American division. He met with staff of Trinidad, Tobago, St. Vincent, and Antigua, and reports that the clinics are doing well, although there are many needs and challenges.
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