March 2016

Volume 13

Issue 3

To reach London with the distinctive, Christ-centered, Seventh-day Adventist message of Hope and Wholeness.

NEWSLETTER

London, Ontario

In This Issue
Does God yell? On listening....................1
Stay Healthy: 6 Tips for Avoiding Cold
and Flu....1
BREAKING: Andrews University Board of
Trustees Selects Provost Andrea Luxton
as Next President...3
Miroslav Kis, Giant in Adventist Ethics
Who Wouldnt Tell a Falsehood, Dead at
73..4
Pastor's blog...........................................5
Youth Day of Prayer...6
Global Youth Day.7
Southwestern fiesta salad with peaches,
black beans and avocado.8
London District schedule of speakers,
March......................................................8

By Duane Covrig

By SANDRA
esterday, I heard a
prompt from the Holy Spirit. It wasnt on a major issue but it was wise
advice that had I received and heeded it, my day would have gone better.

I wish now the Holy Spirit would have yelled. But does God yell? Should He yell?
Does yelling even work?

Stay Healthy: 6 Tips for

Avoiding Cold and Flu
WebMD Feature By Suz Redfearn

Listening has become a great focus of mine over the last several years. Personally, I
have been a talker most of my life and I see how damaging it has been to others and
how much I missed out in learning from others. My family of origin as well as my current family have tried to help me cut down on the talking, refrain from telling (a softer
form of yelling), and try to settle more into using listening as a way to improve relationships especially with God. I have been going through the book of Acts and see the
need to listen everywhere in that powerful book about what the Holy Spirit can do in a
community that is active in waiting and listening, and then doing what they are prompted to do. It also has a lot to say about those who dont listen and instead use threats
and yelling. The evil influences are usually the louder ones evil spirits shrieking out
truth but in a wrong way, bad leaders breathing out threats to Christians, shrieking
mobs that need to be quieted, or the constant barrage of distorted messages. (Kind of
sounds like our times!)

People who are exposed to cold and

flu germs every day -- doctors, flight attendants, teachers -- know a thing or two about
how to stay healthy when everyone around
them is sick. Their suggestions can help you,
too.

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Get a flu shot. It's the No. 1 thing you can

do to prevent the flu.
Wash your hands -- a lot. No matter what
line of work youre in, if you come in contact
with people who are contagious, you have

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The people who listen learn and do amazing things. The people who
dont end up rejecting good stuff, even God himself.
The book of Acts makes profound and repeated appeals to listen to
the Holy Spirit and others.
Sometimes I wonder why the Holy Spirit doesnt just turn up the
volume and blast the words and ideas and truth into peoples ears
so he can get through all the other noise. Maybe, like a good classroom teacher, he knows how to help people listen. Maybe he gave
us the adage: A person convinced against his will is of the same
opinion still.

does gentle nudging and why I should too. Asking prompts our curiosity more and draws our will away from our ruts of thinking and
believing and acting into new areas. It activates our prefrontal cortex
and invites us to make a judgment that is not judgmental but more
informed.
And therein is the challenge of the Holy Spirit and church community. How can our bull-headed, self-absorbed, fixated minds be drawn
to better thinking?
Paul paints the challenge clearly in Romans 1 when he describes us
all:
who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be
known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to
themso that people are without excusebut their thinking became
futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed
to be wise, they became foolsTherefore God gave them over in
the sinful desires of their heartsThey exchanged the truth about
God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than
the Creator who is forever praised. Amen.
How does God get us out of our mental ruts? How does he help us
learn? It is often by how well we listen to Him, to each other, to
new and even opposing ideas.

The people who listen learn and do amazing things.

At times, there is force in the Holy Spirits work when Ananias and
Sapphira drop dead for lying against the Holy Spirit; when Saul is
confronted on the road to Damascus but we dont see yelling. I
guess I should be learning something from the Holy Spirits technique in my own life.
In Acts 27, when Paul is at the lowest status a prisoner stuck on a
boat he cant control the call to listen gets quietly but profoundly
strong: So Paul warned them,

Men, I can see that our voyage is going to be disastrous and

bring great loss to ship and cargo, and to our own lives also.
But the centurion, instead of listening to what Paul said, followed the advice of the pilot and of the owner of the ship.
Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided
that we should sail on, hoping to reach Phoenix and winter there.
This was a harbor in Crete, facing both southwest and northwest.
When a gentle south wind began to blow, they saw their opportunity;
so they weighed anchor and sailed along the shore of Crete.

When I finished the book of Acts and read Pauls last warning (Acts 28:25-28), the theme became even more obvious:

The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your ancestors when he

said through Isaiah the prophet: Go to this people and say, You will
be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing
but never perceiving. For this peoples heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them. Therefore I want you to know that Gods salvation has been sent to the
Gentiles, and they will listen!
Prayer: Oh, gentle Holy Spirit. Forgive me for not hearing your soft
counsel to me yesterday. I know you still stayed with me and I eventually heard and heeded, but I want to hear your still small voice
more and more, especially through the lovely and not so lovely people you will send my way today and the guardrails of life you have
created to keep me pliable. I dont want to be like the Jews and
Gentiles in the book of Acts who rejected your new ideas. I want to
be like the Jews and Gentiles in the book of Acts who received your
words with gladness.

Duane Covrig is the Chair of the Department of Leadership at Andrews University. He teaches courses in leadership and ethics and blogs
at AdventistEthics.com, where this article originally appeared (it has been
reprinted here with permission).

What resulted was pure disaster. Paul later chides them for not listening to him, but in his gracious way reassures them that if they
NOW listened and obeyed, despite their poor choices and a shredded ship, the people would not be lost.
We used a book this summer in our Andrews University Leadership
program by Edgar Schein called Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of
Asking Instead of Telling. It has helped me see why the Holy Spirit

Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. 1 Chronicles 16:11

BREAKING: Andrews University

Board of Trustees Selects Provost Andrea Luxton as Next President.
1 March 2016 | ANDREWS UNIVERSITY and STEPHEN PAYNE
The Andrews University
Board of Trustees has selected Andrea Luxton, currently
the university's provost, to
succeed outgoing president
Niels-Erik Andreasen. With
the appointment, Luxton becomes part a growing number
of women presidents currently
serving in Seventh-day Adventist Higher Education within North America, joining Dr.
Andrea Luxton,
Avis Hendrickson at Atlantic
Union College, Dr. Heather Knight at Pacific Union College,
and Dr. Vinita Sauder at Union College. The following announcement was issued on the Andrews University website:
Earlier today, the executive session of the Andrews University
Board of Trustees elected Andrea Luxton to serve as the sixth
president of Andrews University (and 24th president overall since
Andrews University first began as Battle Creek College).
Luxton replaces Niels-Erik Andreasen who is retiring this spring
following 22 years of service as president of the Seventh-day
Adventist Churchs flagship university. Prior to becoming president-elect, Luxton has served as provost of Andrews University
since 2010. Before coming to Andrews University, Luxton served
as president and vice president for academic administration at
Canadian University College (now Burman University), as an associate director of education at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and as principal/president of Newbold College in England. She holds a PhD in English from Catholic University of America and a postgraduate diploma in Institutional
Management and Change in Higher Education from University of
Twente, Netherlands.
I am excited and humbled by this opportunity to serve and lead
at Andrews University, says Luxton. "I look forward to the opportunity to carry on the incredible heritage of Dr. Andreasens two
decades of leadership at Andrews University, and to find powerful
and strategic ways to continue to support and serve the constituencies of Andrews Universityboth on our Berrien Springs campus and in our Andrews University family around the world."

Some names on our list withdrew of their own accord, but we

had a top quality list to choose from. The interviews and detailed
evaluation that followed led to the final recommendation of two
possible candidates to the board today. We believe that Luxton,
who our board has now voted as Andrews Universitys next president, reflects the sort of visionary, thoughtful and God-centered
leadership that President Andreasen has offered to Andrews over
the last two decades, while also offering the University new and
significant perspectives to the journey ahead. We pray for continued blessings and success for Andrews University and for Luxton
as her presidency begins this spring.
Todays vote came after several months of meetings, evaluation
of candidates and interviews. The Presidential Search Committee
met earlier this week on Sunday, February 28, for one final review
and confirmation of their final choices, and the two names selected and confirmed by the committee were then formally submitted
to the Andrews University Board of Trustees for its vote.
The election of the new president was made by secret ballot in
the executive session of the board (Andrews University representatives, which includes the Presidents Cabinet and the Academic
Deans Council, are invitees to the board, and thus were not present for the vote by the board in executive session).
Luxton, who is now president-elect of Andrews University, will be
formally confirmed as the Universitys next president by a vote of
the newly seated Andrews University Board of Trustees at its
June 2, 2016 meeting.
At that same meeting, Ben Schoun, who has retired from his role
as a general vice president at the General Conference of Seventh
-day Adventists, will also step down as chair of the Board of Trustees, and Artur Stele, general vice president at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, will serve as the next chair of
the board. Stele already served on the Presidential Search Committee as an invitee with no vote.
Its bittersweet to think of what comes next, after Andrews University has meant so much to my education, life and work, say
Niels-Erik Andreasen, retiring president of Andrews University.
Between my years as a student and president, Ive spent about
one third of my life passionately dedicated this campus. But as
my wife and I move on to what is next for our own lives, I have
great faith in Luxton and in the leadership that she will offer Andrews University, in Gods continued blessings for this Andrews
University community that Luxton will lead, and for the global Seventh-day Adventist community that Andrews is honored to serve
in its role as the churchs first and flagship university.

The selection of Luxton was guided by the work of a boardappointed Presidential Search Committee, which began meeting
in September 2015, one month after Andreasen announced his
plans to retire. Chairperson of the Presidential Search Committee
was Ben Schoun, who also chairs the Andrews University Board
of Trustees.
It has been a challenging and ultimately rewarding process,
says Schoun. This committee has been very careful and conscientious in evaluating a broad array of well-qualified candidates
from around the worldincluding a number of minorities, women
and menwhich finally led to the prayerful selection of Luxton,
who was voted by the Board earlier today.

Think before you speak. Read before you think. Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Miroslav Kis, Giant in Adventist Ethics Who Wouldnt Tell a

Falsehood, Dead at 73
Friends remember Ki for his engaging stories and a commitment
to live as he taught.
POSTED FEBRUARY 24, 2016

iroslav Ki, a Seventh-day Adventist giant in biblical

ethics who believed that no type of falsehood was
ever acceptable, died after suffering a heart attack on
Feb. 23. He was 73.

Ki, who retired last June after 31 years at Andrews University,

most recently as professor of Christian ethics and chair of the department of theology and Christian philosophy at the Seventh-day
Adventist Theological Seminary, died on Tuesday afternoon at his
home near the university campus in Berrien Springs, Michigan.

Miklusevci, Croatia. His father, Andrija Ki, was an agriculturalist,

and his mother, Natalija Pap Ki, was a homemaker.
The early responsibilities at home, Ki told the students, left
him with a fiercely independent spirit that manifested itself in the
need to depend on no one.

Remembering Dad
A brief interview with Andrej Ki, elder son of Miroslav Ki and
articulation coordinator at Andrews Universitys office of academic records:
Q: What is your most memorable moment with your father?

Please remember the entire Ki

family in your thoughts and prayers as they deal with this difficult,
unexpected loss, the university
said Wednesday in a statement.

A: My most memorable moments with my father were the times he

would take to listen to me. When I needed to talk about something
important, he would drop what he was doing, wed get in the car,
and go for a drive on a nearby country road even during the
night.

His wife, Brenda Bond Ki, who

worked many years at the seminary and later at Adventist Frontier Missions, also retired last
June.

If what I had to share or confess was sensitive, or just trying to

understand about growing up, he would listen without judgment or
criticism. I could trust him that I could share what was on my mind.
You see, he never knew his father. His father died when he was 2
during World War II. He gave to me what he was unable to get
from his father.

People who knew Miroslav Ki

described him as an engaging
teacher and friend who never
compromised on biblical principles and lived a life that reflected
his beliefs, even clearing a snowcovered driveway for a professor
and mentoring a former student
during a difficult dilemma.

Miroslav Kis

a career in studying ethics after taking a class from Ki in the early

1990s. Bauer said he would long remember Ki telling how he had
grown up as the man of the house after the death of his father
when he was 2 in Yugoslavia. The 10th of 11 children, Ki was
born Nov. 6, 1942, to Adventist parents of Ukrainian origin in

He was a giant of biblical-theological-ethical interpretation, said

Ji Moskala, dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, who knew Ki for more than 20 years. He never compromised on biblical principles however uncomfortable it might be. No
white lies existed for him.
Moskala said Ki was able to explain old truths in new and innovative ways that kept his students captivated.
He was not driven by popularity but by biblical and theological
truth, he said. Many students benefited not only from his teaching
but especially from his clear attitude toward the Bible, because the
Word of God was for him the highest authority and orientation point
in all discussions and his life.

Q: What do you see as your fathers legacy?

I see his legacy in the students he taught and mentored who are in
the ministry, academics, or in other professions where his instruction has contributed to their professional work. He was recognized
as a pastor, professor, scholar, and author. He was a family man,
not just in our immediate family, but in his extended family. He kept
in touch with his brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews as best
he could. He loved his Village Church family and taught an adult
Sabbath school class. The best way to sum up his legacy is to see
it as a fight for good.
My father started the ethics program at Andrews University. He
invested himself in his family, declining offers for professional advancement so that he could research and spend time with those he
loved. I think that is deeply significant for me, but a natural choice
for him.
This is how I have experienced my father.

Because You Call Me Dad

One of those students was Stephen Bauer, a professor of theology
and ethics at Southern Adventist University, who decided to pursue

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Lessons from the Maple

Tree.

very year around late

February, I get eager
for a new season to
begin. Its not Spring
that gets me excited,
although warm breezes and the
sight of the first Robin are always
welcome. What I look forward to
around this time is Maple Syrup
season. As a hobby producer, I
tap around 20 trees to keep my
family and I stocked with a steady
Pastor James Rooney supply of the sweet stuff yearround. Making maple syrup is a
time-consuming affair,
where the majority of the water in the sap is boiled away,
leaving a lovely golden syrup that forms an integral part of
Canadian identity, and makes waffles a joy to consume!
The whole process of sap to syrup got me thinking about
the Christian experience. Sap is the raw material and it
must be exposed to heat to boil away all the excess, before
it can be useful. In my experience, this is how God deals
with us, in the arena of character development. Each of us
has experienced the fire of Gods refining process at one
time or another. Perhaps youre getting boiled down in
your present experiences. It is Gods desire to boil away all
the unnecessary things in our lives: the attitudes, priorities,
and habits that keep us from being useful Christians. And
just as saps sugar content increases as its exposed to the
fire, so we too as Christians become sweeter as God refines
our character on a daily basis. Friends, the simplicity of nature teaches us valuable, practical lessons that can equip us
to be Gods instruments in a crazy world. The next time you
experience some unexpected heat, check with the Lord before complaining. It may be that He is trying to boil something out of your life, to make your Christian walk sweeter.
Your servant and friend,

Stay Healthy: 6 Tips for Avoiding

Cold and Flu
to wash your hands over and over, says Alan Pocinki, MD. Pocinki
practices internal medicine at the George Washington University
Hospital in Washington, DC.

Wash your hands as much as you can stand, and then

some more -- especially after wrapping up a visit with someone whos sick, Pocinki says.
It sounds so simple, but soap and water are the constant
companions of doctors and nurses. To completely get rid of
viruses from your skin, you need to scrub hard for 20 seconds or more. A good way to time yourself is to sing "Happy
Birthday" twice while scrubbing the backs of your hands,
between your fingers, and under your nails. It doesn't matter
if the water's hot or cold -- the very act of scrubbing will
physically remove the germs.
Use alcohol-based hand sanitizer. If you cant get to soap
and water, sanitizer can killcold and flu germs.
Avoid getting close to people who are sick. For example,
don't shake hands.
Doctors tend to be very cautious about hand shaking, says
Terri Remy, MD, medical director of Medical Associates at
Beauregard in Alexandria, VA. Just explain, To keep transmission of colds and flu down, Im not shaking hands. But
hello! Nice to meet you! They understand.
Keep your surroundings clean.
Arlington, VA, massage therapist Amanda Long asks clients
to stay home if they feel bad. But to be safe, she sanitizes
doorknobs and light switches between sessions. It's a practice she swears by. My hyper-vigilance has paid off, Long
says. I was sick more often when I worked in an office,
where people pawed into shared candy dishes and generally just mingled in a crowded space without much attention to
germs. Now that I don't have sick days, I don't get paid if I
don't work. And I know my job is to heal, not pass on a cold
or the flu.

Pastor James
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one Bruce Lee

Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful. Gordon B. Hinckle

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. Warren Buffett

London District schedule of speakers, March 2016.

PRAYER MEETINGS
Theme: Revival
2

P. James Rooney

Simone Biggs

16

23

P. James Rooney

30

P. James Rooney

P. James Rooney

Pulpit Speakers at London District of Seventhday Adventist Churches

DATE
London South Church
805 Shelborne Street

London
Living Truth
Company

Windsor Church
5350 Haig Avenue

Windsor Spanish
Company

Living Faith
Windsor Group

3325 Walker Road

868 Ellis Street

East

Theme Revival:
Our Greatest Need

970 Oxford Street W

Pt. James Rooney

Youth Preaching

T4Y University
students

PT. Alex Golovenko

Alex Capote

12

Pt. Junior Garcia

Pt. James Rooney

Dwayne Rugless

Scott Bastien

Juan Capote

19

Pt. James Rooney

Mike Keim

Halsey Peat

Willys Abali

Marta Lara

26

Choir

George Perez

S.P. Chand

TBD

Dr. L.P. Tan

Southwestern fiesta salad with peaches, black beans and avocaDirections

The Recipe
Makes about 4 servings

Ingredients
2 organic peaches, peeled, pitted and diced
1 can of organic black beans, rinsed and drained
1 organic avocado, peeled, pitted and diced
1 cup frozen or fresh organic corn
bunch of organic cilantro, chopped
1 organic jalapeo, seeded and minced
2 Tbs. fresh organic lime juice
2 Tbs. olive oil
1 tsp. cumin

SDA South London Church

Peeling peaches
Bring 1 quart of water to a boil and fill another large bowl
with ice water. Make two small slits in the shape of an X in
the skin at the base of each peach. Drop the peaches into
the boiling water for about 30 seconds. Using a slotted
spoon, remove peaches from hot water and immediately
transfer them to the bowl of ice water. After about 30 seconds, the peaches should be cool and their skins can easily
be peeled off by hand.

Making the salad

Gently combine peaches, avocado, cilantro, jalapeo and

lime juice in a large salad bowl and set aside. Warm olive oil
in a frying pan over medium heat. Add black beans, corn,
and cumin. Cook mixture for about eight minutes or until
heated. Gently combine the warm bean mixture with the
peach mixture. Salt to taste, and serve immediately.

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