June 2012—San Diego county

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San Diego County Edition
Vol. 30, No. 6
JJune 2012
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By Lori Arnold
CARLSBAD — Al Menconi remembers shaking his head as he
stood in a chapel service during
the 1970s wondering how cultural
influences could ever get worse for
his Christian High School students.
After all, they were being exposed
to such bands as Black Sabbath and
Blue Oyster Cult, groups he associated with satanic tendencies.
“Now we look back at the ’70s as
nostalgia,” Menconi said. “All we
were talking about then was rock
’n’ roll because TV was basically innocent. It didn’t imply that teenagers were having sex. It didn’t show
parents getting a divorce. It was
rare when there was a motion picture that the whole family couldn’t
go to.”
Decades later, Menconi is still
addressing the cultural influences that undermine biblical values. Since leaving Christian High
School in 1982 to form Al Menconi
Ministries, the cultural expert has
reached an estimated one million
Al Menconi has issued an entertainmentban challenge in an effort to draw
people to Christ. In ministry for more
than 30 years, Menconi is hoping to
raise up the next generation of cultural
standard-bearers.
people through his presentations,
books and other resources.
“I started in the ’70s picking
See MENCONI, page 2
Proposed California
law would deny
same-sex attraction
treatment for teens
By Lori Arnold
SACRAMENTO — California
teenagers seeking treatment for unwanted same-sex attractions would
be banned from doing so under a
proposed law before the state Senate. If approved, the state legislation would make California the first
in the nation to implement a ban
on such treatment.
The law, which targets a practice
known as “reparative” or “conversion” therapy, makes no exemptions for parents wishing to seek
the treatment for their children or
for Christian mental health professionals. Another provision of the
law allows for adults who had the
therapy as minors, and or their
family members, to sue for $5,000
in damages.
Authored by Sen. Ted Lieu, DTorrance, the bill, SB 1172, passed
through its final Senate committee
on May 8 and faces a floor vote at
any time before heading to the Assembly.
The law also includes restrictions
for adults seeking the treatment
by requiring therapists to obtain
a signed informed consent form
from their clients before proceeding. According to Lieu’s office,
the form must include a statement
indicating that their clients “understand the potential dangers, including depression and suicide, of
reparative therapy and that it has
no medical basis.”
The mandate text for the form
would read as follows:
“Having a lesbian, gay, or bisexual sexual orientation is not a mental disorder. There is no scientific
evidence that any types of therapies
are effective in changing a person’s
sexual orientation. Sexual orientaSee SB 1172, page 16
Inmates from the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco pray in one of the prison yards. The prison is one of five
in the state offering The Urban Ministry Institute. The program will be expanded to more facilities thanks to an joint
venture between Prison Fellowship and World Impact.
By Lori Arnold
B
y the time Tracy White sent
her adult son, Cary, to the
corner store with $10 to
buy some milk, he had already
subjected his family to a circuitous journey of grief through his
numerous stints between jail and
rehab. What was supposed to be a
10-minute grocery trip brought his
family plenty more.
“I bought drugs and never went
home for nine months,” Cary
White said. “My mom thought I
was dead, and I didn’t care. That’s
the type of person I became.”
It was not the person his parents, Duane White, then-police
chief of Escondido, and his wife
had raised him to be. By the age
of 16 Cary had started his own
auto detailing company and was
earning several thousand dollars
a month. His work ethic earned
him the right to carry a pager to
school.
But by 18 he was restless and rebellious. After watching the movie
“Scarface,” White said he became
enamored with the glory side of drug
dealing—the money, fancy cars and
women. Though he had never used
drugs in his life, White embarked
on his new enterprise by selling
marijuana, doubling his investment
at frequent intervals. He graduated to
See TRAINING, page 8
Christian colleges weigh open access amid
security concerns in light of shootings
By Lori Arnold
SAN DIEGO — Earlier this
year, a disgruntled former student
walked into a tiny Christian college
in Oakland and opened fire, killing
seven and wounding three others.
The April 2 attack at Oikos University—one of the deadliest college shooting sprees in California
history—demonstrated that Christian campuses are not immune to
unprovoked acts of violence.
Just as their secular private and
public counterparts can attest,
weighing the balance of safety and
access is an ongoing dance for security personnel at Christian camSee COLLEGES, page 6
Students linger outside of Nicholson Commons at Point Loma Nazarene
University. Campus security officials nationwide, including those at Christian
campuses, continually have to weigh the balance between open access and
creating a safe environment for students, faculty and staff. A fatal shooting at a
Christian university in Oakland in April showed that Christian campuses are not
immune from violence.
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Dobson to update video series
that launched radio ministry
MENCONI…
Schedule change moves tapings to June
on the kids about their entertainment,” Menconi said. “Then I realized that wasn’t the issue. The issue
was the parents relating to their
children. So I started targeting parents on how to listen to contemporary Christian music, then communicating values and character.”
Over time, his focus changed as it
has once again.
“Where I’m at now, I really believe, I’ve hit the end game in this
discovery of who we are in Christ
and why we are created,” he said.
“We are God’s creation for His pleasure and to worship Him. If we are
involved in the affairs of this world,
we are doing less than that.”
Sensing that his ministry time is
winding down as his age advances
closer to social security benefits
than that of a youthful mentor,
Menconi has developed a new fiveyear plan to expand his reach.
“My goal is to teach others to teach
others,” he said. “I’m getting old, and
I’m not going to go on forever. But what
I focus on, I believe, is very important,
and how I deal with it, I also believe, is
very important.”
LA MESA — Dr. James Dobson,
founder of Focus on the Family and
current radio host of Family Talk,
will appear at Skyline Church June
22 and 23 as well as June 29 and 30
for four nights of live video recordings of “Building a Family Legacy.”
Originally scheduled for two
weekends in May, the dates were
changed due to an unforeseen
scheduling conflict.
The recordings will be an update
to a seven-part series Dobson filmed
on the same topic when he launched
the national ministry of Focus on the
Family. The four sessions, each touching on different subjects, will start at
7 p.m. each evening.
The four sessions, listed in date
order, will cover “Legacy” and the
“Strong-Willed Child;” “Shaping
the Will” and “Adolescence/DeParenting”; “Bringing up Girls” and
“Bringing up Boys”; and “Marriage”
and “Fathering.”
The original series, filmed in
1978 and viewed by 80 million
people, focused on such issues as
the strong-willed child, daring to
discipline, raising adolescents and
marriage.
This second series serves as Dobson’s bookend for a professional
career as a psychologist and authority on child rearing and marriage.
With all the cultural changes in the
past three decades, Dobson will use
the latest research in child development, genetics, adolescence, and
medicine to offer up-to-date advice
on matters of concern to families.
Dobson said that the basics of
creating strong families have not
changed, “although the task of rais-
Dr. James Dobson will be in San Diego
for two weekends in June, recording
an update to his ‘Building a Family
Legacy’ series that launched his radio
ministry 34 years ago.
ing healthy children has become
much more difficult.”
“The culture is at war with parents
for the hearts and minds of their sons
and daughters,” said Dobson.
In his book, Bringing up Girls,
Dobson writes: “This is what lies in
the paths of children whose parents are overworked, distracted, exhausted, and uninvolved. Without
their care and concern, the culture
will take them to hell… Not only
do lonely children tend to get into
trouble, they also become sitting
ducks for abusers who understand
their emptiness and use it for their
own purposes.
“Families that succeed in today’s
world are those that give priority to
the things that matter most,” said
Dobson.
The weekend tapings are free
but require reservations. Childcare
is also available by reservation.
To make a reservation, visit www.
buildingafamilylegacy.com.
Continued from page 1
A new approach
In order to effectively change a
culture that has shifted so far away
from biblical values, Menconi said
he thinks the only true solution is
revival.
“That’s the only way that we are
going to permeate the whole United States,” he said, adding that if
evangelicals can “capture 10 percent of the people to live openly for
Jesus it will be a revival.”
“It is a higher calling,” Menconi
said. “I want to see changed lives
from inside out and then those
Al Menconi address a large group of people as part of his cultural education
ministry.
changed lives change others.”
He likened the approach to the
one used by the Old Testament’s Josiah, who was named King of Judah
as a child of 8 after his father’s assassination. In his adult years Josiah
implemented many reforms and
was instrumental in the restoration
of some of the forgotten Scriptures
of his time. He was also noted for
the destruction of pagan altars.
“He was able to change a nation
because someone spent time with
that child teaching him how to love
God,” Menconi said.
He also pointed to the influences of former first lady Barbara
Bush as an example of what can
happen with proper teaching and
instruction. Not only did she serve
as a helpmate to a man who later
became America’s 41st president,
but she also raised boys who grew
to be another future president and
a state governor.
“You don’t know whom you are
going to be teaching,” he said. “It’s
like Barbara Bush; she had no clue
that she’d be teaching a president
character.”
A 30-day challenge
To help advance his heart for
revival, Menconi has developed
the Christian Music Diet project,
which is also working into a book.
The project asks evangelicals to
pledge to a 30-day commitment to
avoid entertainment and electronic
media, replacing it with music that
helps focus on life from a biblical
perspective.
“It’s basically having a mountaintop experience while you are on
the freeway,” Menconi said.
Doing so, he said, would be similar to those summer camp and retreat experiences many Christians
have experienced in small doses
throughout their lives.
The distractions of modern media, including cell phones, tablets,
video games, TV and films with anti-biblical messages all help to dull
the focus of believers, he said.
Although the Menconis have and
use a TV, he said they are selective
not only about the types of shows
they watch, but also in the amount
of time they spend viewing those
that do have biblical values. He
cites Colossians 2:8 as the basis for
the family’s response to entertainment.
“Don’t let anyone capture you
with empty philosophies and highsounding nonsense that come
from human thinking and from
the spiritual powers of this world,
rather than from Christ (New Living Translation).
“They didn’t have the electronic
media up on the mountaintop,”
he said of the camp and retreat
experiences. “They had teaching,
they had singing and they had fellowship and they had prayer, they
had devotions and they came down
here and turned on their TV, and it
just went ‘whishhhh’ like a pin on
a balloon.”
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What you need to know
about the CLASS Act to
repeal SB 48:
Why the CLASS Act Initiative
is needed to repeal SB 48
■ The CLASS Act and Stop SB 48 are
two different campaigns.
What does SB 48 do?
■ The Stop SB 48 campaign of 2011
failed to gather enough signatures
to qualify for the ballot.
■ Another attempt to repeal SB 48 has
begun. The new campaign is titled
the “CLASS Act” which will repeal
SB 48.
■ None of the signatures gathered in
2011 can be used in 2012. You must
sign a new petition.
■ DEADLINE: All petitions must be
in our Sacramento office no later
than July 11, 2012. Extensions will
not be given.
■ Once the required number of
signatures are gathered, the
initiative will be placed on the 2014
ballot.
SB 48 uses all social science
curriculum, including history
books and other instructional
materials, to teach children as
young as five not only to accept but also to endorse transgenderism, bisexuality, and
homosexuality. SB 48 has been
misrepresented to the public
and passed as a bill aimed to
end bullying. SB 48 went into
effect January 2012. Under SB
48, public schools will begin
supplementing current instruction with pro-transgender,
bisexual and homosexual materials before textbooks are revised. If schools do not comply
with this they are in violation
of the law.
Our public schools are academic institutions, not a place
for politicians to force their radi-
cal agenda on children. SB 48
does absolutely nothing to reduce bullying, improve the state
of our education system, ensure
students graduate, or prepare
them for global competitiveness.
Instead it diverts precious classroom time and resources away
from science, math, reading, and
writing to promote the political
agenda of a few.
Fortunately, there is another way to get rid of this overreaching and inaccurate teaching of history. Sign the petition,
pass the CLASS Act.
What does the
CLASS Act do?
The CLASS (Children Learning Accurate Social Science)
Act advocates an accurate
teaching of history. This initiative ensures that people includ-
ed in social science curriculum
are included for their contributions to society, not their sexual
orientation.
This initiative demands that
no one be left out because of
their sexual preferences, but
that their contribution to history is what we focus on, not
their sexual preference.
What can you do?
The CLASS Act initiative is
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Summer is good time to focus on our need to choose action
It’s the sad plea of every little
kid during summer vacation: “I’m
bored.”
We have all said it occasionally,
and if we’re honest we’ll admit we
can easily fall back into that habit
as adults.
Boredom is a choice. When our
children were younger and they
tried to make their “boredom” our
problem we would reply, “Remember, when you’re bored… you’re
boring.” In other words, you have
plenty of options, so use the brain
God gave you and get on with it!
Get some exercise, read, play, explore, invent!
Today there’s probably a parade
of experts who would criticize such
parental guidance for being “insensitive,” but our kids turned out just
fine.
Every day we are faced with
choices, and more often smart
Americans who ought to know
better are embracing the wrong
ones. Sometimes it’s because we’re
picking an easy way out or because
we’re just worn out. But choices
come at us every moment, day in
and day out.
We can choose to be informed.
That takes work, but it’s essential
in our world. Ignoring the facts
doesn’t change truth. With online
resources and the latest electronic
gadgets there’s more news and information at our fingertips than
When it comes to our
moods, we choose to
be happy… or not.
ever before. Still, it’s increasingly
easier to waste valuable time doing less than productive things in
cyberspace.
Of course it’s not healthy to
absorb only “hard news” 24/7, although in my line of work it’s hard
to choose otherwise. Even so, we
need to choose other options. It’s
good to take a breather, to have a
day of rest or take a vacation. We
can even decide to take little mental getaways or maybe even a “power nap” during the day, but hopefully not while on the company
time clock.
When it comes to our moods, we
choose to be happy… or not.
Sometimes circumstances overwhelm us and direct moods for a
while, but at some point it’s our
choice to grab something positive
to adjust our thinking.
Choosing to medicate or put an
emotional “band aid” on life’s chal-
lenges won’t last long. Deciding
to try to do the right thing always
makes more sense. At least it’s a
goal worth pursuing.
Path to dependence
I sense that Americans have gotten used to having others make
choices for them. The recession
caused more people to depend on
Uncle Sam for support, and certainly many are thankful for occasional “safety nets.” But focusing on
fear and having long-term addiction to government largesse can seduce some into believing there’s no
more choosing, just “getting what
I deserve, for free… no responsibilities.” That’s a path that leads to
serfdom.
If “joy comes in the morning,”
and it does, we can choose to be
excited about each day God has
given us, despite the problems and
challenges. Happiness isn’t some-
thing that simply happens, so it’s partly up
to each of us to spread
it, starting with excitement and enthusiasm.
Set your mind on
these things.
This is the point
where I’ll be asked,
“How can you be happy and excited when
Mark
there’s so much pain
in the world?”
I hear you, but I don’t believe
God wants us to wallow in the
messes. Yes, mourn with those who
mourn, rejoice with those who rejoice, but do something important
daily. Press toward the goal with the
talents God gave you. That thought,
in itself, leads to a more cheerful
heart and happier days.
When we’re happier, we are bolder in our ways and more confident.
That can lead to more sharing of
the Good News, in spite of the daily
dose of the bad. If we share more
we’re loving others more by interacting with them, and enjoying our
lives together in our community.
ready whining about
being “bored.”
I have lost count of
the number of friends
who say things such as,
“I’m so burned out on
the election already…
it doesn’t matter.”
That’s a very sad
choice, and an irresponsible one. If peoLarson
ple who are usually in
the game choose to
opt out and take their “political involvement ball” home, the easier it
is for the other side to win. Liberty
and freedom lose.
Summer’s a great time to think
about these things and be thankful for all the choices we have in
life. I know that I have chosen life
through Christ, and that thought
alone helps me decide to take on
every day with all the energy God
can give me.
Choosing to be involved in our
country, especially in times such
as these, is important and essential. And there’s absolutely nothing
“boring” about that.
Pursue liberty and freedom
As the election season heats up
and political candidates and issues
are considered, I am increasingly
concerned that too many of us have
decided to be like the little kids,
just out of school for vacation, al-
Larson is a veteran Southern California radio/television personality
and media consultant. He can be
heard daily in San Diego on KCBQ
1170AM from 6 to 9 a.m. and on
KPRZ 1210AM from 2 to 4 p.m. Email: [email protected].
Legislative Update
Expansion of abortion access stopped by citizens, lobby groups
By Rebecca Burgoyne
For nearly four decades, since
the U.S. Supreme Court guaranteed a woman’s right to an abortion with the Roe v. Wade decision
in 1973, millions of lives have been
lost or impaired by the trauma of
unrestricted abortion.
A decade ago, amid concerns
that the U.S. Supreme Court would
eventually overturn Roe v. Wade,
California pro-abortion activists
deemed it necessary to codify women’s reproductive “rights” in state
law. As a result, in 2002, the leftleaning California Legislature took
great pride in passing several “landmark” abortion bills, among them
Senate Bill 1301 (Sheila Kuehl, DLos Angeles), which protects abortion in California regardless of any
future actions of the high court.
Pledging to continue to stand for
a woman’s right to choose an abortion, then-Gov. Gray Davis commented in a news release, “When I
became governor, I warned that no
bill restricting women’s rights would
become law under my watch—and
I’ve kept my word. Today, California is the most pro-choice state in
America—and proud of it.”
The California Legislature’s ma-
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jority has an abysmal pro-life record. In a national ranking of states
published by Americans United for
Life, California remains near the
bottom. Only Washington state,
which legalized physician-assisted
suicide through voter initiative,
ranks lower. Although the California Legislature has been unsuccessful in promoting PAS, it continues
to strengthen a woman’s “right”
to an abortion, unlike many other
states.
Last year, legislators nationwide
introduced a record number of
abortion-limiting bills, and 135 of
them became law. This year, while
not at last year’s record pace, our
nation’s pro-life legislative trend
continues.
However, even in California, preborn human life was recently protected from further harm. SB 1338,
a bill that would have made abortions more accessible, was stopped
in its tracks by the active work of
pro-life Californians. Had it passed,
SB 1338 (Christine Kehoe, D-San
Diego) would have expanded the
category of those who can provide
surgical abortions to include licensed physician assistants, nurse
practitioners and certified nursemidwives.
SB 1338 would have allowed
these medical personnel, who by
definition do not perform surgeries, to perform surgical aspiration
or suction abortions. Currently
only physicians or surgeons with
valid licenses may provide surgical
abortions, although other licensed
individuals may perform or assist
in non-surgical abortions such as
the morning-after pill. Only four
states—Oregon, Montana, Vermont, and New Hampshire—allow
non-physicians to handle aspiration
abortions, which account for 75
percent of all first-trimester abortions.
Already taking place in California is a pilot project that suspends
current law and allows a limited
number of non-physicians to perform surgical abortions under supervision at the University of California, San Francisco. In its initial
language this bill, sponsored by
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of
California, the American Civil Liberties Union of California, ACCESS
to Women’s Justice and NARAL
Pro-Choice California, would have
made training programs available
to thousands more potential abortionists. The powerful California
Nurses Association opposed the
measure, arguing that—with the
pilot project still under way—it is
premature and unsafe to change
the law.
Bucking the trend
In recent years, abortion providers and clinics have been on the decline. Most doctors—perhaps finding abortion antithetical to their
goal of saving lives—are refusing to
do abortions. A 2011 study found
that, while 97 percent of physicians
surveyed had encountered patients
who wanted an abortion, only 14
percent of the doctors were willing
to do an abortion.
More than half of California’s 58
counties lack an abortion provider,
and Kehoe claims her bill would
give greater access to women from
rural areas who may otherwise have
to travel great distances, take time
off work and incur hardship to obtain an abortion.
In a day when most Americans
want to limit the number of abortions, California legislators are trying to expand access to abortion
in a way that lowers the standard
of training for an abortionist and
decreases the standard of care for
women. Using the language of
choice and access disguises the seri-
ous nature of abortion, the lost life
of the baby, and the life-altering impact on women.
A sweet victory
SB 1338 survived its first hearing
in the Senate Judiciary Committee,
but local, state and national organizations joined forces in a coordinated strategy to influence certain
members of the Senate Business,
Professions and Economic Development Committee, where it did
not muster enough votes for passage. Even after being amended
and given opportunity for the committee to reconsider, Sen. Kehoe
could not sway enough members,
and the bill died in committee.
This process was successful because organizations came together,
providing citizens with information
and “talking points” by which to
communicate to their elected representatives’ offices.
We look forward to more prolife, pro-family successes through
a model of action such as was displayed in stopping SB 1338 and the
expansion of harm on women and
preborn children.
Burgoyne is a research analyst
for California Family Council.
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with them. But it is
like to be treated, but in doing so something altogether different for
he ignored the totality of Scripture those who disagree to claim the Biand the Lord Himself, who alone ble doesn’t say what it says, in effect
gets to set the rules for human be- calling God a liar. President Obama
apparently hopes there are suffihavior.
The president says he is a “prac- cient numbers of biblical illiterates
ticing Christian.” It is difficult to be -- and he could be right about this
one while simultaneously holding a -- that either won’t notice his sleight
low view of the Bible, which his po- of hand, or don’t care.
Thousands of years of human
sition on several social issues might
history have sustained marriage
suggest.
The same Book that informs between one man and one woman.
him about the Person he told Pas- Even human biology testifies to a
tor Rick Warren in 2008 is his “Sav- natural order.
Genesis 2:24 says “...a man shall
ior,” also speaks to the beginning
of human life (he has done noth- leave his father and mother and
ing to limit abortions), fornication be joined to his wife. The two shall
between adults of the opposite sex become one flesh.” Jesus, Whom
(no word yet on his position on that President Obama likes to selectively
subject), marriage, and adultery, quote when it suits his earthly po-
…he ignored the totality
of Scripture and the Lord
Himself, who alone gets to
set the rules…
litical agenda, honored traditional
marriage at a wedding feast in Cana
(John 2:1). He also reaffirmed the
Genesis passage in Matthew 19:5.
Paul, the Apostle of Jesus, wrote
in Ephesians 5 about husbands and
wives, male and female.
Scripture teaches that the marriage union between a man and
woman is an illustration of how
Christ and the church are one
(Ephesians 5:32). It also teaches
that since God made us, conceived
of marriage and created sex to be
enjoyed within the marital bond,
He gets to set the rules and establish the boundaries for human
behavior, not because He is a curmudgeon who wants to deny us
pleasure, but because He knows
what is best for us.
Liberal theologians have tried
to modify, or even change, what is
contained in the Bible and there
are those in our time who are following their example with the issue
of same-sex marriage. People are
free to accept or reject what Scripture says. What they are not free to
do is to claim it says something it
does not. In modern times that’s
called “spin.” In an earlier time it
was called heresy.
The Apostle John warns in Revelation 22:18-19 about the punishment awaiting anyone who adds
to, or subtracts from Scripture.
Deuteronomy 4:1-2 has a similar
warning. The consequences aren’t
pretty. There are also warnings
not to preach “another Gospel”
(Galatians 1:8, 2 Corinthians 11:4,
among others).
As he seeks to justify his position
on same-sex marriage and other
issues that are either questionable
at best, or deny Scripture at worst,
President Obama might be said to
be preaching another gospel. This
could possibly lead to a fissure in
his solid support among African
Americans, costing the president
votes in November. It will also likely
galvanize the culture warriors. Minorities mostly vote for Democrats,
but they don’t like their faith denied. That could cause some of
them to stay home on Election Day,
or even vote for Mitt Romney.
The negative reaction the president received from some of the
African-American ministers he
called after declaring his support
for same-sex marriage should serve
as a prophetic warning.
© 2012 Tribune Media Services,
Inc.
A savage attack: Redefining bullying
A few weeks ago, Americans got
a lesson in hypocrisy—and of how
dangerous it can be to redefine
words.
It all began when the National
High School Journalism Conference invited a gay rights activist
named Dan Savage to speak to students in Seattle about the need to
prevent bullying. But it turned out
that this was a lesson Savage badly
needed to learn himself.
To the shock of the students, Savage
launched a vicious attack on the Bible
and Christian beliefs. As he put it, “We
can learn to ignore the [BS] in the
Bible about gay people.” Of course he
didn’t say “BS.” As Savage continued
his attack, some students broke into
tears. Dozens of offended students
walked out of the auditorium. As they
left, Savage heckled them with vulgar
words I can’t repeat on the air.
One of the teachers present—
Rick Tuttle of Sutter Union High
School in California—said the
speech “took a real dark, hostile
turn ... It became very hostile toward Christianity.”
Savage later apologized for using
vulgarity to describe the students.
But he refused to back down on his
other comments—including his offensive comments about the Bible.
Now, what are we to make of this
conundrum?
First, I think we can safely assume
that the term “bullying” has gone
the way of “tolerance.”
Tolerance used to be defined as a
willingness to put up with the beliefs
or practices of those with whom we
disagree. Today, tolerance means we
must accept the beliefs and practices
of others as correct—or risk being
called a bigot. It’s interesting that this
redefinition of tolerance almost always
involves debates over homosexual-
ity—and it always seems
tians. But we need to
do a couple of other
to be people on just one
side of the debate calling
things, as well.
those with whom they
First of all, whatdisagree “intolerant.”
ever the subject, we
I mean, when was
must always take care
the last time you
to make our case winheard a Christian acsomely, and with great
cusing a gay-rights
civility. No one should
ever be able to truthactivist of intolerance
because he refused to
fully accuse Christians
Eric Metaxas
acknowledge that bibof bullying, including
lical teachings about homosexual- the kind of verbal bullying Dan Savity are correct?
age demonstrated last week.
And now we’re seeing the same
This insistence on graciousness
kind of redefinition going on re- and civility for those on the other
garding the word bullying. If you side of these issues was the hallmark
so much as whisper that you believe of what Chuck Colson believed,
that true marriage can take place and let it be ours as well. As for
only between one man and one intolerance towards homosexuals,
woman, you’re accused of bullying. Christians ought to be—and often
You and I need to be aware of have been—the first to volunteer
changes in word definitions that at AIDS hospices, to demonstrate
are used as weapons against Chris- kindness to the children of same-
sex couples, and otherwise display
the love of Christ to those with
whom we have such different views.
In other words, we should demonstrate love and true tolerance. In
this way, as the Bible teaches, we
heap ashes upon the heads of those
who dislike us for our views.
Second we need to pray for people
like Dan Savage—so filled with anger
and hurt—that their eyes would be
opened to God’s love and mercy, just
as we pray for our own loved ones.
Finally, three cheers for those
high school students who refused
to sit still and listen to attacks on
their faith. We should never be bullied into silence.
© 2012 Prison Fellowship.
Metaxas is currently the voice of
“Breakpoint,” a radio commentary,
formerly featuring the late Chuck
Colson.
Election 2012 offers conundrum over the ‘lesser of two evils’
Though thankfully there are exceptions, all too often candidates for elective office give us choices where no one
is acceptable. In fact, for years one of
the most common laments has been:
“I can’t vote for the lesser of two evils.”
Not only is this a telling indictment of
our approach to equipping and motivating qualified candidates to run for
public office, it’s also a subtle way some
assume the moral high ground by not
voting at all. Our conscience may be
clear in this, but by doing so we leave
the election result completely in the
hands of others.
I think it’s time for a reality
check.
I can understand a personal concern
with a vote appearing to support “evil,”
but let’s be honest, all candidates are
flawed, some more vile than others
(Romans 3:23). If I actually ever saw
a perfect candidate, they probably
wouldn’t be perfect for someone else,
and vice versa. The fact remains that
it’s through elections that our government asks us to select public leaders,
and these leaders will wield significant
influence over us; the higher the office,
the greater the power.
Keep in mind
swer to a higher authormost elected offiity for our every word,
cials only represent
action and vote (Matthose that voted for
thew 12:36). I’ve found,
them. In fact, most
however, that appealing
elections are deterto our duty to help keep
mined by a small
the vilest from any posipercentage of the
tion of authority is both
adult
population,
prudent and necessary,
and in close eleceven though we may
tions a very small
end up voting for somepercentage of votes
one with unacceptable
Frank Kacer
will determine the
weaknesses.
winner. So if someone decides not
In a similar vein, many vote with
to vote, there could be dramatic a list of non-negotiables. The lonconsequences concerning who will ger the litmus test the fewer, if any,
make those day-to-day policy, legis- candidates will ever qualify for the
lative, judicial and governance deci- conscious vote. I have a lot of symsions that will affect us all for years pathy for this approach when issues
to come.
such as pro-life, traditional marTo help with the conscience issue riage and fiscal responsibility are
of voting for “evil.” I’ve made a hab- considered. But what about those
it to say, “I’m voting to prevent the times where a clear champion for
greater evil from occurring.” This our values doesn’t emerge?
What about third party candidates
may sound like a terminology trick,
but it more accurately captures our that line up closer with our values but
citizenship duty when faced with have no hope of winning or the virtually
distasteful voting options. As Chris- unknown Christian that runs but may
tians this is not something for us to not be qualified? Again, I encourage
take lightly, since we know we an- voting to prevent the worst option
from gaining power. This may result in
tradeoffs of policy and electability, but
declining to vote is counterproductive.
Does this compromise our principles?
Not if our vote amounts to damage
control among many poor options.
The role of conscience
Are we in sin if our conscience
still prevents us from voting for anyone in a particular race? I can’t say
for others, nor should I. Ultimately,
we each must have a clear conscience before the Lord. If we can
cast only a “conscience vote,” such
as for a candidate that we like but
has no impact other than stripping
votes away from others, that may be
all we can do.
Many of the decisions we’ll be
making this year in the primary and
general election will be difficult.
Once we have our ballots, we’re in
the election end-game phase. With
the exception of write-in candidates, the field of options is already
decided. If we want to change our
choices in future elections, then it’s
time to begin planning for them
now by identifying and mentoring
those with a passion for politics and
core values consistent with ours.
Only when we take this type of ministry seriously for the long haul will
we be able to ensure our choice
isn’t weighing one evil against another. Rather it is casting a “yes” for
the best among many good options.
Kacer is executive director for
the Christian Citizenship Council
of San Diego. He can be reached
at [email protected].
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COLLEGES…
puses.
“All these things have really
spurred some intense conversations among institutions of higher
education in the U.S., and we are
continuing to talk about that,” said
Dr. Derek Vergara, associate vice
president of student affairs at Concordia University Irvine. “I don’t
want to make a pun, here, but there
is just no silver bullet for safety.”
Unlike most corporations, which
have set hours and a consistent employee roster, universities are home to a
student and faculty pool with divergent
schedules. Added to the mix are guest
speakers, visiting professors, vendors
and dorm residents.
At Point Loma Nazarene University,
the cliff-side campus is isolated at the
end of a road. Even so, a public beach
below the university requires that security and staff allow the public to have
unlimited access to the shore.
Jeffrey Carr, the associate vice president for student development at PLNU,
acknowledges that people come from
all over San Diego County to enjoy the
secluded, yet popular beach.
“On the campus itself, you have a
number of mechanisms to manage
and maintain a safe environment,”
Carr said. “There are a number of
things we have to balance between the
traffic of our regular students and staff
and guests.”
Both security experts said it is unrealistic to believe that any college,
including Christian institutes, could
exempt themselves from such an attack, even with the latest technologies.
“Even the best institutions have their
plans, but when something happens
you are navigating through each arena,
you are jumping through different
hoops and are really trying to address
issues as they come and trying to be
intuitive as different things come down
the pike and trying to address that as
well,” Vergara said.
An eye to behavior
In 2004, Point Loma, which this
year had 2,376 enrolled students
and 1,592 living in dorms, implemented a Behavior Intervention
Team to regularly access security
by monitoring the conduct of potentially troubled students and staff
members. The team meets once a
week to aess possible trouble spots.
The BIT teams, as they are called,
have become more popular on cam-
Emergency crews are at the scene of a deadly shooting on a Christian college
campus in Oakland. Seven people died and three others were injured when
former student One Goh opened fire at Oikos University on April 2.
puses in the wake of the 2007 Virginia
Tech shooting massacre, in which a
student killed 32 of his peers and staff
before killing himself. Following the
release of the “Governor’s Panel Report” on the Virginia shootings, new
protocol was created for BIT teams. The
National Center for Higher Education
Risk Management includes a list of its
recommendations through its Best
Practices guide.
Carr said even with the guidelines it is difficult to predict when
an incident will unfold. In most instances, he said, the shooters have
gone to great length to plan and
execute their reign of terror.
“Identifying possible sources and
neutralizing them is not a 100 percent
mechanism to prevent something from
happening,” the PLNU official said.
“Almost every single one of those
institutions where that has happened
over the past 10 years were very different in causes, and how they played
out. No matter what you do, there is
going to be an opportunity for them to
complete whatever they decide to do.”
Strong assessments
John Ojeisekhoba, chief of public safety at Biola University, said
his campus is constantly evaluating
both its education and prevention
measures, offering training to help
keep those on campus safe. In addition, eight of his campus officers
carry guns, and three others are going through the seven-step process
to qualify for a weapon.
“We never sit down and say we’ve
done enough,” Ojeisekhoba said.
“But the situation in Oakland,
how can you stop that? How will
you know that someone is walking
around armed?”
At the time of the Oikos Univer-
sity shooting, Ojeisekhoba said he
was in the process of finalizing a 40page assessment of the campus.
“We are very blessed to have a
president and staff that wants to do
their best to equip the campus safety department with what it needs,”
the La Mirada chief said. “Inaction
can be an even bigger liability.”
Several months before this latest
attack, Ojeisekhoba conducted a
review of several decades of school
and university shootings, compiling
data from 80 campuses, 20 of which
were at faith-based colleges.
The information will be used to
assess his own campus against possible vulnerable spots.
“My officers know every inch of
this place,” he said.
Responsibility and accountability
Recognizing that prevention can
only go so far, the campus security
officials said they spend a great deal
of time educating students, staff,
faculty and—even parents—on
how best to respond in the event of
an active shooter on campus.
“We try to do as much preventive
front loading that we can,” Carr said.
Vergara said one of the topics
he tries to instill in the 3,400-member student body is not to abdicate
their own safety responsibilities
onto everyone else.
“Safety for students is the responsibility of everybody,” said Vergara, adding
that the campus houses 878 people on
site. “Students need to be educated
about how to be responsible, and they
also have to take accountability not
only for themselves but for others.
The university also has a responsibility
to try to maintain a safe and inclusive
environment where the goal is people
can study.”
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TRAINING…
selling LSD, then methamphetamine.
As be began rubbing elbows with his
clients, White began sampling his own
products. Eventually, he ended up consuming most of what he intended to sell.
By 2007 the dealer-turned-addict
crossed over to breaking into cars to
steal loose change to underwrite his
fix. As his crimes escalated, so did his
punishments and, after numerous
stopovers in county jails, he was finally
ordered to state prison. While awaiting
transfer from the Vista county jail to his
temporary digs at Donovan State Prison
in Chula Vista, White discovered a new
turn on: Jesus.
After being assessed at Donovan,
the Escondido native was transferred
to the California Rehabilitation Center
in Norco, where several weeks later
Prison Fellowship launched a seminarylevel education program inside the
correctional facility. His four years
of incarceration there were spent in
biblical training, which has prepared
him for ministry outside of the walls.
“My life has been transformed in an
amazing way,” White said of The Urban
Ministry Institute training, a voluntary
program that prepares prisoners to be
spiritual leaders who can help transform the urban areas to which they
will return after their release.
White didn’t wait for his parole
before beginning his ministry, and
by the time his sentence was over,
the born-again believer was baptizing his fellow inmates in a “nasty”
prison sink that he used to “brush
his teeth, spit and wash underwear.”
Program to expand
Still relatively new to the state,
the privately funded institute offers
seven classes to 218 state prisoners
in five California prisons, but it will
Cary White, who graduated from
The Urban Ministry Institute while
incarcerated, now runs a communitybased institute in Riverside.
be expanding—thanks to a new
agreement between Prison Fellowship and World Impact, a Christian
missions organization committed
to serving the urban poor.
Operated under an agreement
with the California Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation, the
expansion will bring the four-year,
16-course TUMI program and its
seminary-level training curriculum
to an additional 960 inmates. In all,
32 classes will be offered in the prisons over the next 24 months.
“I think that it is going to make
the prison system safer and society
in general safer,” White said. “We
started in prison with eight students, and within four years those
eight students, taking that education, went out into their dorms
and started up small church plants
inside the day room and went out
to the yards and started witnessing,
and now there are 96 students in
that same prison.
“What are 96 students going to
do in that prison yard? Well, all
these guys parole and they continue to be pastors outside. Everyone
that I know that is paroled so far
who went to school with me inside,
they are all in the ministry now.”
White now serves on the board of
a community-based satellite TUMI
center in Riverside. Launched in
January, it has 97 students and 10
teachers.
“What we are trying to do is give
a theological education to someone who is in the urban poor areas
who can’t afford to pick up and
leave their job, their family and
the pastoring of their church to
go to Wheaton (College) or Dallas
(Theological Seminary) or something like that,” the former inmate
said.
“Reformation always takes place
when equipping and the Bible is
made available to the people, the
regular everyday people, and that’s
exactly what’s happening.”
Effective ministry
Bishop George McKinney, pastor
of St. Stephen’s Cathedral Church
of God in Christ of San Diego, lauded the work of the institute for its
success in training urban pastors
for “effective ministry.” McKinney’s
church has long been involved with
urban ministry.
“I am excited to be part of multiplying this exciting work in the
prisons, believing that God will
transform thousands of prisoners
into pastors,” he said. “I will welcome them back into the city as colaborers.”
Prison Fellowship and World Impact began their California prison
collaboration in 2006 and have
since established institute programs in two prisons in Florida and
one in Michigan. Ten California
prisoners, including White, have
graduated from the institute and
have successfully reintegrated into
urban communities—some serving
as pastors or other church leaders.
The Urban Ministry Institute has
also been heralded by prison officials for its impact inside prison
walls and in urban communities.
“The culture inside prison can
tend to be violent,” said Domingo
Uribe, warden of Centinela State
Prison, west of El Centro. “I have
more than 40 inmates in The Urban
Ministry Institute who are learning
to become leaders and as a result
have remained disciplinary free
for a year and a half. The attitude
change and new life direction these
inmates have received from TUMI
are helping to change the culture
within the prison yard. I know there
are populations in every prison facility that would benefit from this
program.”
Learning opportunities are also
available outside of the prison,
thanks to satellite programs offered
through World Impact, meaning
inmates who are released before
the completion of their coursework can continue their education.
White has several of these men
training under him.
“I have seen the effectiveness
of TUMI over the past 15 years,”
said Dr. Jack Hayford, founder and
president of The King’s University
in Van Nuys and a World Impact
board member. “I’ve witnessed former thieves and drug dealers go
through this program and become
totally different people, completely
turning their lives around. I fully
expect when TUMI graduates leave
prison they will become contributing members of their communities—and our communities will be
safer for it.”
Redeeming communities
In White’s satellite program, 60
of the nearly 100 students are former gang bangers, addicts or pros-
titutes.
“It’s literally taking the riff raff of
society and training them up to be
men of God and women of God,”
White said. “Not just a Christian,
a Christian who actually does the
work of making other disciples.”
White is also practicing what he
preaches.
Through his work in the institute, White holds a certificate in
Christian leadership studies, an associate’s degree in biblical studies
and a bachelor’s degree in pastoral
ministry. He just began work on a
master’s degree.
“The need out there is so, so
great,” he said. “You have so many
people out there in church. You see
people who have been a Christian
for 20 years and they have absolutely no growth at all. They are not
being equipped, and they are not
working in the calling that God has
called them to.”
In October, White was invited
to share his testimony at a “From
Prisoners to Pastors,” promotional
event at the Regan Library. The
keynote speakers included Dr.
Keith Phillips, World Impact’s president; Jim Liske, CEO of Prison Fellowship; and Hayford, who asked
guests to support the work of the
institute.
White said he was in awe of where
his journey had landed him once
he turned his life over to Christ.
“I’m a habitual criminal,” he
said. “I go into prison. I end up
learning or feeling the call of God
in my life. I end up in a prison that
has a Bible college in it. I graduate
from prison. I get out and seven
months later I’m on stage with Jack
Hayford. Those are the little things
that TUMI is doing.”
tumi.org or www.worldimpact.org.
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Pew study provides rare window
into religion behind bars
Christian Examiner staff report
WASHINGTON, D.C. — America’s prisons have become a hotbed
of evangelistic activity, according to
a new Pew Research Center survey
of professional chaplains assigned
to minister there.
“Religion in Prisons: A 50-State
Survey of Prison Chaplains,” conducted by the center’s Forum on
Religion & Public Life division
found that 74 percent of the
prison chaplains say that efforts by
inmates to proselytize or convert
other inmates are either very common (31 percent) or somewhat
common (43 percent). About
three-quarters of the chaplains
say that a lot (26 percent) or some
(51 percent) religious switching
occurs among inmates in the
prisons where they work. Many
chaplains report growth from
religious switching in the numbers of Muslims and Protestant
Christians, in particular.
The survey also explored the
question of religious extremism,
a frequent talking point since the
9/11 terrorist attacks. More than
one-third of the clergy polled said
that religious extremism is either
very common (12 percent) or
somewhat common (29 percent)
among inmates.
Religious extremism is reported
by the chaplains as especially common among Muslim inmates—including followers of the Nation
of Islam and the Moorish Science
Temple of America—and, to a substantial but lesser degree, among
followers of pagan or earth-based
religions such as Odinism and
other small religious groups of
which many Americans may have
never heard.
Just over a fifth of the respondents said that religious extremism seldom poses a threat to the
security of the facility in which
they work, with only 4 percent of
chaplains saying religious extremism among inmates “almost always”
poses a threat to prison security and
an additional 19 percent saying it
“sometimes” poses a threat.
The survey, conducted from
Sept. 21 to Dec. 23 and released
in late March, also sought to get
a picture of the religious make-up
of inmates since most prisons track
the data but do not make it public.
On average, the chaplains surveyed say that Christians as a whole
make up about two-thirds of the
inmate population in the facilities
where they work. Protestants are
seen, on average, as comprising 51
percent of the inmate population,
Catholics 15 percent and other
Christian groups less than 2 percent. The median estimate of the
share of Protestants is 50 percent,
meaning that half of the chaplains
estimate that Protestants comprise
more than 50 percent of the inmate
population where they work, and
half of the chaplains estimate the
figure to be below that.
At the same time, the survey
found that a majority (77 percent
total) of chaplains reported that
there is either “a lot” of religious
switching (26 percent) or “some”
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switching of religious affiliation
among inmates (51 percent).
Among chaplains who report
that at least some switching occurs
within the correctional facilities
where they work, about half (51
percent) report that Muslims are
growing in number, and 47 percent say the same about Protestant
Christians. A sizable minority (34
percent) of chaplains answering
this question also say that followers
of pagan or earth-based religions
are growing.
The religious affiliations of the
chaplains themselves was also studied with 71 percent of those polled
identifying as Protestants, 13 percent Catholics, 7 percent Muslims
and the remainder other religions,
including Judaism and Native
American spirituality. A plurality of
the chaplains (44 percent) consider their faith to be part of the evangelical Protestant tradition while
15 percent come from a mainline
Protestant tradition and 7 percent
are from a historically black Protestant tradition.
Researchers attempted to contact all 1,474 professional chaplains
working in state prisons across the
country, and 730 chaplains returned completed questionnaires,
a response rate of nearly 50 percent. Funding for the survey was
underwritten by the Annie E. Casey
Foundation.
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EL CAJON — Anthony Whitney
was barely into his teens when he
waltzed into a Bible study at a local
tattoo parlor. A fledgling artist at
heart, he was instantly mesmerized
by the shop’s vibe.
“I saw everything that was going on and I thought, ‘Wow, they
are getting paid to do this,’” said
Whitney, who goes by A.J. “’This is
cool.’”
Raised in a Christian home and
a believer himself, he was immediately struck not only by their craft
but their blazing love of Jesus.
“It was a bunch of guys that I
think that society back then would
call ‘the least of these,’” he said.
“They were so roughed up but they
spoke with so much wisdom ’cause
they had been there, done that. It
was like God just opened my eyes
that all these people who looked so
rough and tough were all these elders that had so much experience
and knowledge.”
The young, impressionable
Christian wanted what they had, so
he bought a prepaid debit card to
order a tattoo kit on eBay.
“At that point I started recruiting
some of my gullible buddies to let
me go to town on them,” he said.
“It was just a fascination, and it’s
been a fascination ever since.”
A decade later Whitney and his
wife, Heather, have put his dream
into action with the opening of Revelations Tattoo, a 400-square-foot
shop where they use skin art as an
avenue to preach the gospel.
“I show them love by talking
about their day, talking about
where they are from, what they do
for a living, this, that and the other,” Whitney, an Iraqi war veteran,
said. “In most occupations where
you do customer service, they are
urged to stay away from talking
about religion and politics and all
that good stuff, but that’s pretty
much the first spot where I go.”
After spending time developing a
rapport with his customers, he gently turns the tables as he leans over
Many of the tattoos inked by Anthony “A.J.” Whitney have biblical themes.
Whitney and his wife, Heather, are owners of the Revelations Tattoo shop in El
Cajon.
them with his inking gun.
“I share with them what I believe,
how I opened up the shop, what
God’s done in my life and the testimony that I wear on my body because a lot my tattoos are testimonial pieces of just different things
that have hit me in life that I don’t
want to forget.”
Those entering the bright purple shop on El Cajon Boulevard
shouldn’t be surprised by his passion for both tattoos and Christ.
The word “Revelations” is blazoned
on an inside wall. Nearby is a stunning black and white drawing of
Jesus’ face with red drops of blood
sliding down his forehead and
cheeks and the words “Have we forgotten why he came” written below.
The window air conditioning unit
serves as an impromptu bookshelf
housing stacks of New Testaments
the couple hands out at every opportunity.
Clues also greet them outside,
where their motto “Set Apart” is
clearly visible as is the shop logo,
which includes a crown of thorns
with the reference 19:16, referring
to the Bible verse after which the
shop is named:
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On his website Whitney includes
the Greek translation for the word
“written”: “to engrave, write, according to the ancient method of
writing on plates of metal, waxes
tables, etc.”
“I don’t think he used a Sharpie,”
he said.
No clear distinctions
Mark Strauss, a New Testament
professor at Bethel Seminary in
San Diego, said the most commonly
cited passage about tattoos is Leviticus 19:28. The King James version
reads, “Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor
print any marks upon you: I am the
Lord.” In newer translations, “tattoo” has replaced the word print.
Even so, Strauss, author of the
new book “How to Read the Bible
in Changing Times,” said most biblical experts believe the passage refers specifically to pagan forms of
expression.
“The great majority of scholars
think this has a specific reference
to pagan rituals, cutting of the body
associated with pagan rituals, especially in mourning and things like
that, and that really doesn’t necessarily apply to modern tattoos. Of
course it could if, in fact, the modern tattoo represents identification
with false religion or a false god.
It’s not necessarily a blanket forbidding of all tattoos or markings on
the skin.”
As for the reference to Revelation
19:16, Strauss said scholars have differing views on the interpretation,
some believing the phrase will be
engraved on statues or on robes
only.
“Everyone is pretty much guessing at what it means,” he said. “It’s
obscure enough that you can’t
make a strong case one way or an-
Tattoo artist Anthony “A.J.” Whitney
displays a portrait he drew of Jesus
inside his El Cajon shop.
other about what it means.
“I think we can honestly say there
is no expressed forbidding of tattoos from the Bible. That doesn’t
necessarily make them right or
make them wrong. You have to
judge it from broader testimonies
in Scripture.”
The professor said he believes
it is much more important to consider the decision in context of the
purpose of the tattoo and the state
of mind of the person seeking one.
“Obviously, when people put
Christian symbols or names or
whatever on them, they are essentially identifying themselves with
Christ,” Strauss said. “I don’t think
that’s a negative thing at all. I think
other times tattoos are related to
self-image issues and that people
get tattoos because of peer pressure to do so or are seeking value.
In that sense it could be a negative
thing.”
An unhappy mom
Though rather obvious, Strauss
said another major consideration is
PHOTO BY LORI ARNOLD
The door of Revelations Tattoo, a Christian-owned business, boasts a crown
of thorns with the Bible reference of 19:16. The passage, from the Book of
Revelation, is the theme verse for the shop.
the permanency of the artwork.
“It’s a tough one,” the New Testament expert said. “I think the important thing is people don’t get
them because they feel like they
have to for self-image, that they
don’t get them because it’s the
thing to do in the culture.”
Whitney admits his mother was
not a fan of the teenage hobby.
“She was livid,” he said. “She hated me. I got in so much trouble. It
was horrible.”
The son said he used Revelation
19:16, the one he learned in that
tattoo shop as a 14-year-old Bible
study student, to sway her.
“Now so many years later, I ended
up tattooing her,” he said, saying
she chose a four-color piece with
four flowers and swirls.
“After I showed her that Bible
verse, it kind of changed her perspective a little bit. It’s crazy that 14
years later I’m using that (verse) as
inspiration to drive my business.”
The Whitneys, who have a
2-month-old daughter named Aajay, said they are more than aware
of the controversy over tattoos in
the Christian community.
“We have some people say it’s
amazing,” Heather Whitney said.
“They are proud of us for what we
are doing. We have others who call
us hypocrites.”
Witness and service
Instead of focusing on the debate, the couple has chosen to
focus on the business, which they
said has been anointed from the
beginning, and on using the store
as a conversation point for sharing
Jesus. Since opening in February,
they have witnessed to military personnel, atheists and Buddhists.
“It’s been a pretty wild ride,’” he said.
“It’s just unbelievable how God has
moved in our lives, and we are super
humbled by it, and we understand that
it can be taken away at any moment.
We’ve tried to be really diligent with
what he has given us and make the
most of it. Looking back on it, I can
see all the trails leading up to where
I am now.”
One of those trails includes using the business to reach out to
the neighborhood’s homeless and
hurting.
“For years that boulevard has always been considered a Hells Angels-ruled neighborhood,” he said.
“If you look at what Hells Angels actually really means, it’s hell’s angles,
which means demons.”
Among the trouble spots was Dumont’s, a biker bar that was closed
in 2007 after its owner, a Hells Angel, was sentenced to prison for
racketeering. The long-time bar
was also the scene of a fatal shooting and stabbing. Last year, a Drug
Enforcement Administration officer, joined by local police, raided a
nearby private Hells Angel club using flash-bang grenades and seizing
computers. No one was in the club
at the time of the raid, but several
members were later arrested on
drug charges.
“(Satan) always really ruled that
neighborhood, and I feel like God
is kind of taking it back,” Whitney
said. “We’re trying to be a light in
the community and show them
that God loves them and we’re set
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For more information on the
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Nationally known Reggie Dabbs will be
one of the speakers for Future Quest
2012.
Thousands of
youth expected for
East County youth
conference
EL CAJON — Foothills Christian
Fellowship will again be hosting Future
Quest, the popular youth conference
that drew more than 2,400 last year.
Future Quest 2012: Arise will take
place June 27 to 29 at the church
campus on West Bradley Avenue in
El Cajon.
The church-based youth conference
features large general sessions, equip-
ping breakout training lessons as well
as free time for outreach activities and
fun. Future Quest exists to encounter
the reality, power and glory of God,
through passionate worship and the
proclamation of His truth and training up of young people to be bold
disciples of Jesus.
Future Quest is designed for students
entering 7th thru 12th grades. Adults,
including college students, involved in
supporting youth ministries are encouraged to attend.
This year’s speakers include
Reggie Dabbs, a nationally known
youth speaker; Bill Wilson, the
founder and pastor of the Metro
Inner City Ministries in Brooklyn,
N.Y.; Foothills founding pastor
Mark Hoffman and Foothills senior
high pastor Danny Eslinger.
Each day students will choose one
of 15-18 workshops designed to give
them practical help in becoming the
young men and women of God that
America and the world need today.
The workshops will deal with issues
such as: dating and purity, gender &
sexuality, evangelism, missions, evolution vs. creation, apologetics, and many
more subjects.
There will also be practical outreach activities scheduled for the
beach and downtown urban areas.
Worship will be led by a Future
Quest worship team with concerts by
The Wedding, Flame, and Propaganda.
The cost for the three-day conference is $33 before June 18 and
$40 after. A daily rate of $18 is also
available.
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Seminar to explore
cancer issues
LA JOLLA — LifeGuard Ministries, in affiliation with La Jolla
Christian Fellowship, is launching a
new cancer outreach with an educational seminar planned for 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. June 9 at the church.
The kick-off event will include
teaching on the causes and prevention of cancer, early diagnosis and
treatment, fighting existing cancer,
surviving cancer and strengthening
caregivers and families in the fight
to eradicate the disease.
In addition to the education element, other scheduled activities
include worship and prayer, testimonies of cancer survivors, sessions
with a Christian physician who
overcame cancer and a roundtable
“getting-to-know-you” discussion
where participants can share their
stories and prayer requests.
“I cannot imagine how anyone could
face cancer without Jesus, said Dr. Dean
Foster, a LifeGuard co-founder and
cancer survivor. “I wouldn’t be alive
today without Him, my wife, and all
the loved ones He sent who prayed
and cared for me.”
The cost of the seminar is $20, which
includes a healthy cancer-fighting
lunch and session materials.
The church is located at 627
Genter St.
For more information or to register, www.lajollacf.org/lifeguard or
call (858) 454-9636.
SD Eagle Forum
convention approaches
LA MESA — Eagle Forum San
Diego will hold its “Rise Up California” convention from 4 to 9 p.m.
June 1 at Skyline Church.
Speakers for the event include
Wayne Allyn Root, founder of Root for
America; Brian Brown, president of the
National Organization for Marriage;
Rick Scarborough, founder of Vision
America; Holly Swanson, director of
Operation Green Out; Frank Gaffney,
founder and president of the Center for
Security Policy; Charles LiMandri, West
Coast director of the Thomas More
Law Center; Walter Hoye, founder of
Issues4life Foundation; Dran Reese,
founder of the Salt and Light Council;
and Alice Linahan, president of Voices
Empower and a national blogger.
Tickets are $20.
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in Hollywood. Last year, more than
500 entries were received.
Submissions received by Sept.
24 are $50, and afterward the fee
is $80 until the Nov. 2 competition
deadline.
More information, including criteria for the prizes, may be found at
www.kairosprize.com.
Housewarming for
Baby Izaiah’s family
SAN DIEGO — Passion for Kids,
a faith-based ministry to children
with special needs, is hosting an online housewarming shower for Baby
Izaiah Wallis and his family.
The shower is the second phase
of a yearlong project to find and
purchase a handicap-accessible
home for the family. Escrow recently closed on a new home that will
accommodate the needs of Izaiah,
who was critically injured when a
drunk driver hit his stroller while
the toddler was on an outing with
his grandfather. The grandfather
suffered minor injuries.
“Although we are privileged to
spear head this project which God
placed on our hearts, we can by
no means take credit for getting to
this point,” said Linda Van Kessler,
who runs the ministry with her husband, Charles. “The outpouring of
love and support from around the
country, and particularly from San
Diego, has been incredible.”
The home is still in need of some
renovation, and volunteers are expected to spend up to six weeks
preparing it for occupancy. In the
meantime, those wishing to help
the family furnish the home can do
so at Bed, Bath and Beyond where
the Wallis family has registered.
All gifts purchased will be sent
to Passion 4 K.I.D.S. and presented
to Izaiah’s parents at a housewarming celebration. To shop go to www.
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Submissions sought
for 8th Annual Kairos
Prizes
HOLLYWOOD — Submissions
are now being accepted for the 8th
annual Kairos Prizes for spiritually
uplifting screenplays by first-time
and beginning screenwriters.
The awards are sponsored by Dr.
Ted Baehr, founder of Movieguide,
and supported by the John Templeton Foundation, which funds the
$50,000 in grant money for the Kairos Prizes’ top three entries.
“We are absolutely thrilled to
bring the best and brightest new
voices to Hollywood,” Baehr said.
“And we are honored by the amazing
support the Hollywood community
has shown toward the competition.”
Since 2006, the Kairos Prizes have
celebrated the best new screenplays
across the globe that “greatly increase man’s love or understanding
of God.”
The competition is designed to
encourage and recognize new filmmaking talent.
“There are several other winning writers that currently have
productions and deals in the pipeline,” Baehr said. “We look forward
to having the opportunity to announce these later in the year as
they come to fruition.”
“Johnny,” the inaugural Kairos
Grand Prize winner written by David M. Anthony and originally titled
“John, The Revelator,” was released
on video last year through Pure Flix
Entertainment.
Winners will be announced at the
21st Annual Faith & Values Awards
Gala and Report, set for February
David Clark, executive vice president
and provost of Bethel University will be
the commencement speaker for Bethel
Seminary.
June 9 commencement
at Bethel Seminary
SAN DIEGO — Bethel Seminary
San Diego will hold its 33rd Commencement at 10 a.m. June 9 at
College Avenue Baptist Church.
The commencement speaker will
be David K. Clark, executive vice
president and provost of Bethel
University in St. Paul, Minn. The
theme is “One Thing,” based on
Galatians 5:13-26.
Prior to his executive position,
Clark served as professor of theology and a dean at Bethel Seminary
and was a pastor at Faith Covenant
Church in Burnsville, Minn.
David attended New York’s
Houghton College, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois and
earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern
University. His wife, Sandy, is director of Corporate and Foundation
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Golfing for Teen
Challenge
Teen camp offers art,
music workshops
SAN DIEGO — San Diego Teen
Challenge will host its Hank Sauer
Memorial Golf Tournament & Spa
Event beginning at 12:30 p.m.
June 8 at Rancho Bernardo Inn.
Founded more than 50 years
ago, the faith-based Teen Challenge is the oldest, largest and
most successful program of its
kind in the world, serving youth,
adults and children who are
impacted by drug and alcohol
addiction as well as other lifecontrolling problems.
Since David Wilkerson opened
the first center in New York in
1960, Teen Challenge has grown
to more than 195 centers across
the nation and 550-plus centers
worldwide.
The cost of the fundraising
tournament is $250 and includes green fees, golf cart, driving range, lunch and dinner,
silent auction and gift package.
Spa packages are available from
$125 to $150. Extra dinner tickets are $50 a person.
Sponsor packages range from
$1,000 to $2,000, with additional
opportunities for underwriting
such items as tees, the putting
contest, golf carts, balls, shirts and
SAN DIEGO — The Village
Church Community Theatre, in
conjunction with Village Community Presbyterian Church, will
present a one-week intensive acting
camp for middle and high school
students Aug. 6 to 10.
The camp is open to teens and
those who graduated this year.
In addition to acting, the professionally led workshops will include
music and technical theater. The
camp includes rehearsals for the
one-act musical play “Old Testament: Fast Forward!” The production is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Aug.
10.
Paseo Delicias in Rancho Santa Fe.
For more information, send an
email to margiew@villagechurch.
org or call (858) 756-2441.
Kay Arthur to headline
Oceanside conference
OCEANSIDE — “Revive Me With
Kay Arthur,” a two-day conference
for women, will be held Sept. 21
and 22 at Calvary Chapel Vista.
She and her husband, Jack, are
the founders of Precept Ministries
International, whose mission is to
Kay Arthur will hold a two-day “Revive
Me” conference for women Sept. 21
and 22 at Calvary Chapel Vista.
teach people to study the Bible inductively.
According to event organizer
Margy Hill, of Women’s Ministry
Connection, the conference is inspired by the psalmist’s cry, “My
soul clings to the dust.”
“We are asking God to use Kay’s
love and passion for Him and His
Word to ‘revive us according to His
Word,’” Hill said in a news release.
The cost is $40, which includes
a Friday evening session and three
more on Saturday. A light dessert
will be served Friday evening, and
lunch will be served on Saturday.
Worship time will be led by Sherri Youngward.
Conference organizers have secured a block of hotel rooms at the
Courtyard Marriott for $99 a night.
wmconnection.org.
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Summer Bible Conference series
announced for Shadow Mountain
Tim Tebow to appear at Qualcomm
Stadium for Father’s Day service
EL CAJON — Shadow Mountain Community Church has announced their Summer Bible
Conference lineup for 2012. The
church, pastored by nationally
syndicated radio personality David
Jeremiah, has sponsored the popular 13-week Sunday night series for
more than thirty years.
The highlight of the series, however, happens on a Sunday morning
rather than a Sunday night—NFL
quarterback Tim Tebow will be the
featured speaker for Father’s Day
on June 17. The 10:00 a.m. service
will be held at Qualcomm Stadium.
As quarterback for the Denver
Broncos, Tebow captured national
headlines during the past NFL season for amazing comebacks—including a spectacular come-frombehind win over the Steelers in the
first round of the playoffs—and for
his unabashed devotion to Jesus
Christ demonstrated on the field by
going down on one knee for brief
moments of prayer, an act that became known as “Tebowing.”
Because of Tebow’s immense
popularity that goes far beyond just
sports fans, the church concluded
that its three regular services in
their 2,500-seat auditorium was not
nearly sufficient for the expected
demand.
Concert launches series
The 2012 series kicks off June 3
with recording artist Charles Billingsley. Billingsley, worship leader
for Thomas Road Baptist Church in
Lynchburg, Va., had served on the
music and worship staff of Shadow
Mountain from 2005 to 2007.
Tim Tebow will appear at Shadow
Mountain’s Father’s Day service on
June 17. The event will be held at
Qualcomm stadium at 10:00 a.m.
On June 10, Dinesh D’Souza,
president of The King’s College in
New York City, will appear. A prolific writer, persuasive debater, and
sought after speaker on college
campuses as well as many other venues, D’Souza has been named one
of America’s most influential conservative thinkers by the New York
Times. Some of his recent bestsellers include, “What’s So Great
About Christianity” and “The Roots
of Obama’s Rage.”
Robert Morgan, pastor of The
Donelson Fellowship in Nashville,
Tenn., is a best-selling and Gold
Medallion-winning writer with
more than 25 books (3.5 million
copies) in print. He will be speaking on June 24.
With no Sunday night service on
July 1, the church will present its
annual “Celebrate America” patriotic production as part of its regular weekend services on Saturday
night and Sunday morning, June
30 and July 1.
The Sunday night series resumes
July 8 with best-selling author Tim
LaHaye. LaHaye was the pastor of
Shadow Mountain (then called
Scott Memorial Baptist Church)
prior to Dr. Jeremiah. He is also
one of the founders of San Diego
Christian College. He is perhaps
best known as co-author of the bestselling “Left Behind” series along
with scores of other popular books.
Ralph West will appear on July
15. Dr. West serves as founder and
senior pastor of The Church Without Walls in Houston, Tex. The
church began with 32 members
and now embraces 24,000 families,
meeting in three locations and conducting six services each Sunday.
Other speakers for the series include Voddie Baucham (July 22),
Philip DeCourcy (July 29), Sean
McDowell (Aug. 5), Dennis Swanberg (Aug. 12), John Ortberg (Aug.
19), and Bill Butterworth (Aug.
26).
Except for Father’s Day and the
Patriotic Celebration, the Sunday
night services begin at 6:00 p.m.
All services are free. The church is
located at 2100 Greenfield Drive in
El Cajon.
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EL CAJON — Even on the telephone Mari Rothman projects sunshine and hope. The lilt emanating
from her voice quickly brings to
mind Mark 10, in which Jesus admonishes his followers to approach
the throne with a childlike faith.
Twenty years after founding her
Sonshine Haven children’s ministry, Rothman is just as excited and
dedicated as she was while running
a brush through the matted hair of
the first child she mentored.
“It’s just kind of blossoming,”
she said. “We’ve had so many, many
kids come to the Lord.”
The cornerstone of the ministry is
after-school Bible clubs, the prototype
of which she started at Chase Avenue
School in El Cajon after discovering
many of the children were coming to
school with no shoes and empty stomachs, while others were missing classes
because no one at home bothered to
get them up and ready.
With the blessing of school administrators, Rothman and five
volunteers began six-week, one-on-
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School enjoys the music during the
Sonshine Club after-school program.
essential, what the children ultimately
lacked was spiritual guidance, so she
started Sonshine Clubs, the weekly
after-school programs in which the
children sing songs, make crafts,
memorize Scripture, eat snacks and
hear a Bible story.
“We always try and tie it to a character trait like forgiveness or anger
or revenge or bullying, and apply
it to something practical in their
lives,” said Rothman, who is called
“Miss Mari” by her students.
The 90-minute program was so successful at the primary level that one of
the principals invited Rothman to his
middle school campus, and the Higher
Ground clubs were launched.
Today, 43 elementary and middle
schools in seven districts, mostly in
the East County, host the clubs. Several more districts have expressed
an interest, including San Diego
Unified. The clubs average about
40 children each week, although a
few draw as many as 100.
Developing life skills
In addition to the weekly clubs, the
ministry also offers regular life skills
classes when school is off track. The
life skills courses are offered over the
course of a day, and children are allowed to select two workshops from a
list of eight offered that day. They are
also fed lunch.
“We still know that is such a way of
reaching the kids and giving them
a chance to do something they’ve
never done before,” she said.
Skill courses include guitar or
keyboard lessons, sewing, computers, cartoon drawing, cooking,
sports and arts and crafts. In one
session, the children and their families were treated to a baseball game,
courtesy of the San Diego Padres.
Even lunch becomes a teaching moment when the instructors
guide the children in using good
table manners, saying a blessing before eating and cleaning up.
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considered the needs of mothers,
many of whom were raising children
on their own. Twelve years ago she
expanded the ministry once again,
adding a monthly Moms Night Out.
The evenings include a speaker, door
prizes and an opportunity for prayer.
“We need to spend time with the
moms of our kids and be able to talk
to them and find out what is going on
in their lives,” she said. “We decided
we needed to have a Moms’ Night with
no kids so the moms could just talk
and pray together, write down their
concerns. A lot of them have grown
into being our volunteers.”
Volunteers sought
Despite the wide scope of the
ministry, its operating budget is quite
small—$160,000 annually, which
mostly covers rent and insurance, signaling its dependence on volunteers,
as many as five per club.
“The more people, the better we
do,” she said. “We are always looking
for volunteers to help with the teaching
team. That’s what holds us back. Like
Madison School, for instance, we lost
our team leader for that. It’s so sad to
see a school that’s so needy and no
one to take it.”
To help fund the ministry’s operations, Sonshine Haven recently hosted
its annual gala. Guests were treated to
a video testimony of one young man,
who as a middle-schooler, ran with an
Asian gang. Thanks to a Higher Ground
club, he left the gang and focused on
his school work. A recent graduate of
the University of California, San Diego,
the young man is now counseling atrisk families.
“Here he is working for inner city
families,” Miss Mari said. “I thought that
was so cool that somebody we had spent
a lot of hours, a lot of time on, ended
up getting a career in the same field.”
His story weaved into the event
theme, which was “Celebrating 20 Years
of Treasures.” One of the prizes for the
evening was a loose diamond hidden
among dozens of cubic zirconias.
“It kind of reminds me of the kids
because you never know how they are
going to turn out,” she said. “You just
pray for them and love them and reach
out to the whole family and trust the
Lord to bring the harvest around to
take that little rough stone and polish
that into a diamond.”
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JUN 28-30 • THU-SAT (cont.)
JUL 19 • THURSDAY
CANCELED - Spirit West Coast, Monterey
• spiritwestcoast.org
Julius Kim & more. Grace Bible Church,
655 W 11th Ave., Escondido. By Institute
for Biblical Counseling & Education •
(760) 747-9252, ibcd.org
Men With a Purpose, with Dr. Andy Doan. 121:30pm, Doubletree by Hilton, 1515 Hotel
Circle, San Diego, $20 • (619) 222-3688
JUN 21-24 • THU-SUN
“Senior Follies,” presented by CCT,
Lincoln Performing Arts Center, 4777
Imperial Ave., San Diego. Various times
• cytsandiego.org, (619) 588-0206
MAY 25-26 • FRI-SAT
JUN 8 • FRIDAY
JUN 22-23 • FRI-SAT
‘You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.,’
presented by CYT. Fri 7pm; Sun 2pm
& 7pm, Pacific Beach Middle School
Theater, 4676 Ingraham St., San Diego
• cytsandiego.org
Hank Sauer Memorial Golf Tournament &
Spa Event. 12:30pm, Rancho Bernardo
Inn, 17550 Bernardo Oaks Dr., San Diego, $250. Hosted by San Diego Teen
Challenge • (619) 265-0337
MAY 25-27 • FRI-SUN
JUN 9 • SATURDAY
Spirit West Coast,
San Diego. Featured
ar tists: TobyMac,
Newsboys, Tenth Avenue North, Family Force 5. Also Matthew West, The Afters, Chris August,
Love Song. Speakers: Nick Vujicic, Luis
Palau. Many more. Del Mar Fairgrounds
• spiritwestcoast.org
Christians Uniting to Fight Cancer Seminar. 9am-3pm, La Jolla Christian Fellowship, 627 Genter St., La Jolla, $20 •
(858) 454-9636, lajollacf.org/lifeguard
James Dobson, host of
Family Talk and founder
of Focus on the Family,
will present Parts 1-4
of an 8-part live taping
of “Building a Family
Legacy,” 6:30-9:30pm, Skyline Church,
Hwy 94 @ Jamacha, Rancho San Diego.
Free, but reservations required • buildingafamilylegacy.com
MAY 26 • SATURDAY
Tyrone Wells, with Joe Brooks & Tyler
Hilton. 8pm, House of Blues, 1055 5th
St., San Diego, $17 • tyronewells.com
MAY 27 • SUNDAY
Messianic Concert. 6pm, 5714 El Cajon
Blvd., San Diego • luz.world-evangelism.
org, (858) 366-2088
JUN 1 • FRIDAY
The 2012 Eagle Forum San Diego Convention. 4-9pm, Skyline Church, 11330 Campo
Rd., La Mesa • efsdconvention2012.com
Bethel Seminar y San
Diego’s 33rd Commencement, with David K Clark.
10am, College Avenue
Baptist Church, 4747
College Ave., San Diego
• (619) 582-8188
San Diego Women’s Connection.
11:30am-1:30pm, Best Western Seven
Seas, 411 Hotel Circle S, San Diego,
$22 • (619) 223-3643, (619) 276-6972
8th Annual Gospel Festival featuring
Donnie McClurkin. 7:30pm, San Diego
County Fair, Del Mar, free with admission
or $22-33/reserved seats • sdfair.com
JUN 10 • SUNDAY
JUN 2 • SATURDAY
Salt & Light Citizenship Ministr y.
1-2:30pm, Horizon Christian Fellowship
Church, Room 203, 6365 El Apajo Blvd.,
Rancho Santa Fe • (858) 756-5599
Creation Club Workshops for Kids, ages
3-12. 10am, Creation & Earth History
Museum, 10946 Woodside Ave. N., Santee • creationsd.org, (619) 599-1104
A Rotterdam November, indie rock band,
in concert. 6pm, El Cajon Wesleyan
Church, 1500 E Lexington Ave. El Cajon.
Free • (619) 440-4452
LCPC Music Series presents An Evening
of Broadway Musicals. 7pm, Lakeside
Community Presbyterian Church, 9909
Channel Rd., Lakeside • (619) 443-1021
Dinesh D’Souza, Summer Bible Conference.
6pm, Shadow Mountain
Community Church, 2100
Greenfield Dr., El Cajon,
free • (619) 440-1802,
shadowmountain.org
JUN 2-30 • SATURDAYS
Summer Nights “Messages in a Bottle”
at Word of Life Worship Center. Saturdays, 6-7:15pm, Word of Life Worship
Center, 8691 Echo Dr., La Mesa • (619)
271-8800
Charles Billingsley in
concert with SMCC choir
and orchestra, Summer
Bible Conference. 6pm,
Shadow Mountain Community Church, 2100
Greenfield Dr., El Cajon, free • (619)
440-1802, shadowmountain.org
JUN 6 • WEDNESDAY
My Therapist ‘Sez’…”, an interactive
panel of Christian therapists moderated
by Dr. Don Welch on “Forgiveness is Forgiving” with Ryan Buchmann presenting,
Debbie Wagner, Cathy Gaetke, Dr. Marcial
Felan. 6:45-8pm, Skyline Church, 11330
Campo Rd., La Mesa • (619) 660-5000
JUN 7 • THURSDAY
Christian Family Schools County Spelling Bee for homeschoolers. 6pm, Ignite
Church, 14034 Poway Rd., Ste. G-J,
Poway, $7 • cfssd.org
Family Connections Christian Adoption
Information Session. 6-8pm, 291 S El
Camino Real, Ste 202, Oceanside, free
• fcadoptions.org, (760) 966-0531
JUN 13 • WEDNESDAY
Prayer Shawl Knitting. 1-3pm, La Jolla
Community Church, 4377 Eastgate Mall,
San Diego • (858) 454-6682
JUN 15 • FRIDAY
Apologetics Seminar, with Greg Koukl.
7-8:30pm, Emmanuel Faith Church
Worship Center, 639 E Felicita Ave.,
Escondido, free • (760) 745-2541
Switchfoot, in concert. 7:30pm, San
Diego County Fair, Del Mar, free with
admission or $22-33/reserved seats
• sdfair.com
JUN 20 • WEDNESDAY
South Bay Christian Women’s Connection Luncheon. 11:30am-1pm, Chula
Vista Golf Course Restaurant, 4475 Bonita Rd., Bonita, $15 • (619) 475-6288
JUN 23 • SATURDAY
Fi shfest 2012,
with TobyMac,
Sanctus Real,
Phil Wickham, Chris August & more.
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine
• transparentproductions.com, (714)
545-8900
Leeland, in concer t. 7pm, Horizon
Christian Fellowship, 6365 El Apajo Rd.,
Rancho Santa Fe • leelandonline.com
JUN 24 • SUNDAY
Messianic Concert. 6pm, 5714 El Cajon
Blvd., San Diego • luz.world-evangelism.
org, (858) 366-2088
Robert Morgan, Summer
free • (619) 440-1802,
shadowmountain.org
JUN 29-30 • FRI-SAT
James Dobson, host of
Family Talk and founder
of Focus on the Family,
will present Parts 5-8
of an 8-part live taping
of “Building a Family
Legacy,” 6:30-9:30pm, Skyline Church,
Hwy 94 @ Jamacha, Rancho San Diego.
Free, but reservations required • buildingafamilylegacy.com
JU 30 • SATURDAY
“Celebrate America,” patriotic celebration. 5pm, Shadow Mountain Community
Church, 2100 Greenfield Dr., El Cajon,
free • shadowmountain.org, (619)
440-1802
JUL 5 • THURSDAY
Family Connections Christian Adoption
Information Session. 6-8pm, 291 S El
Camino Real, Ste 202, Oceanside, free
• fcadoptions.org, (760) 966-0531
JUL 7 • SATURDAY
Creation Club Workshops for Kids, ages
3-12. 10am, Creation & Earth History
Museum, 10946 Woodside Ave. N., Santee • creationsd.org, (619) 599-1104
Singles 35+ Seminar: Dating & Marriage
After Divorce & Breakups. 7-10pm, The
Cove, The Church at Rancho Bernardo,
11838 Bernardo Plaza Court, Ste. 101,
San Diego, $10 • (760) 443-3188
JUL 8 • SUNDAY
Five Iron Frenzy, in concert with My Superhero. 7pm, House of Blues, 1055 5th
Ave., San Diego, $19.50 • livenation.com
JUN 25-29 • MON-FRI
Awana Club Soccer Camp. 4-7:30pm,
Valley Christian School. 1350 Discovery
St., San Marcos, $20 • valleybible.com,
(760) 744-0274
JUN 27-29 • WED-FRI
Future Quest
youth conference, hosted
by Foothills Christian Fellowship, featuring Reggie Dabbs, Bill Wilson, Mark
Hoffman, Danny Eslinger. Concerts by
The Wedding, Flame, Propaganda. Plus
workshops, skatepark, paintball, airsoft
and many more activities and features
• futurequest.tv
JUN 28-30 • THU-SAT
“Changed by Grace,” with Tim Lane,
Tim LaHaye, Summer
free • (619) 440-1802,
shadowmountain.org
JUL 15 • SUNDAY
Ralph West, Summer Bible Conference.
6pm, Shadow Mountain Community
Church, 2100 Greenfield Dr., El Cajon,
free • (619) 440-1802, shadowmountain.org
JUL 15-19 • SUN-THU
JUL 21 • SATURDAY
Phil Wickham, in concert. 6pm, Horizon
Christian Fellowship, 6365 El Apajo Rd.,
Rancho Santa Fe • horizon.org
Voddie Bauchman, Summer Bible
Conference. 6pm, Shadow Mountain
Community Church, 2100 Greenfield
Dr., El Cajon, free • (619) 440-1802,
shadowmountain.org
JUL 22 • SUNDAY
Comedian Tim Lovelace. 5pm, El Cajon
Wesleyan Church, 1500 E Lexington Ave.,
El Cajon, $10/person or $25/family
(suggested donation) • 619) 440-4452,
(619) 442-5941
JUL 22-27 • SUN-FRI
Vacation Bible School, Amazing Wonders Aviation,” 3 years – high school.
5:45-8:30pm, First Baptist Church
Clairemont, 3219 Clairemont Mesa
Blvd., Clairemont, free • fbcclairemont.
org, (858) 273-4642
JUL 25-29 • WED-SUN
Renovare, Covenant Retreat, with Richard J Foster, Chris Hall, Nathan Foster,
Julia Roller & many more. Point Loma
Nazarene University, San Diego, various
cost • (303) 792-0152, renovare.us
AUG 6-10 • MON-FRI
2012 Summer Drama & Musical Theatre Camp, middle school thru ’12 high
school graduates. The Village Church,
6225 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe
• (858) 756-2441
AUG 25-26 • SAT-SUN
Orange County Harvest Crusade with
Greg Laurie at Angel Stadium • harvest.
org
SEP 7- 8 • FRI-SAT
Promise Keepers 2012 National Men’s
Conference, “Called Out!” Viejas Arena
at San Diego State University, San Diego
• 1-866-776-6473, promisekeepers.org
SEP 8 • SATURDAY
Steven Curtis Chapman, in concert, 7pm,
Skyline Church, Hwy 94 @ Jamacha Blvd.,
Rancho San Diego. Ticketed • (619)
660-5000, skylinechurch.org
Sky VBS. 6:30-8:30pm, Lighthouse Christian Church, 4700 Mesa Dr., Oceanside,
$15/child or $40/family • lightcc.org
SEP 8-9 • SAT-SUN
JUL 15-20 • SUN-FRI
SEP 21-22 • FRI-SAT
Youth Entrepreneurship Academy presents High School Business Planning
Camp, Concordia University, Irvine •
www.cui.edu/yea
“Revive Me” Conference with Kay Arthur
& Sherri Youngward. Calvary Chapel
Vista, 885 E Vista Way, Vista, $40 •
[email protected]
Los Angeles Harvest Crusade with Greg
Laurie at Dodger Stadium • harvest.org
Smilehaven Dental Center
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SAN DIEGO — An elderly
San Diego woman who made suicide kits from her home and sold
them over the Internet will spend
five years on probation and pay a
$1,000 fine—not for the mail-order
business but for taxes charges related to the enterprise.
A federal judge issued the sentence May 7 after 92-year-old Sharlotte Hydorn pleaded guilty in
December to not filing income tax
returns from 2007 to 2010.
Hydorn’s home business, which
she started after watching her husband’s painful battle with cancer
three decades ago, came to light
last spring after a 29-year-old Oregon man used the device to take
his own life. Though dealing with
chronic health issues, the man was
not terminally ill. The case prompted Oregon legislators, at the urging
of the deceased man’s family, to
ban the sale of such devices. Oregon is one of a few states that allow
physician-assisted suicide for those
with a fatal diagnosis.
Federal authorities said they
could not prosecute Hydorn for
making and selling the kits because
there is no federal law banning
someone from assisting in a suicide.
In San Diego County, at least six clients are believed to have used the kits
to end their lives, authorities have said.
The District Attorney’s office declined
to bring charges against Hydorn even
though California law prohibits suicide
assistance.
In the fall, federal authorities
raided the El Cajon home Hydorn
shares with her son, seizing documents, computers and the sewing
machine she used to make the
hooded kits. As part of her plea
deal, Hydorn was ordered not to assist in any more suicides.
Over the years Hydorn is believed
to have sold more than 1,300 of the
kits from a Rancho San Diego mailbox suite. The kits were sold online
for $60.
In an April 2011 interview with
the Christian Examiner, Hydorn said
she started making the kits about
three years earlier, after a Canadian
man closed down his mail-order
business citing poor health.
Because of her husband’s extended
struggle with cancer 30 years ago, Hydorn said she became an advocate for
a person’s right to choose the method
and timing of their death, even receiving training in how to become an
“exit aide,” someone who stays with a
patient as they end their own life. She
has traveled across the country in that
role, she said.
“I’m just here to comfort people
because I suffered, too, when my
husband died,” she said.
Tim Rosales, the spokesman for
the Californians Against Assisted
Suicide, said in an interview last
year that he believed Hydorn, who
did not actually participate in the
suicides, was flirting with the state’s
law prohibiting suicide assistance.
“The law gets tricky and gray,”
Rosales said. “I think it’s definitely
skirting the law. I think anyone participating can be exerting influence
on the person, especially someone
who could be facing serious difficulties and challenges ahead. The
opportunity for mischievousness is
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ANAHEIM HILLS — A public
funeral service was held May 19 for
veteran Christian talk show host
Rich Buhler, who died May 7 of
pancreatic cancer. He was 65.
Buhler, who was diagnosed with
the cancer in July 2010, died in an
Orange County hospital. His passing was announced in a statement
posted on his Facebook page by
son, Keith E. Buhler, who wrote,
“Our daddy completed his life’s
course and enters now into the rest
of our Lord.
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for the love, support and prayer
during this journey—God’s mercy
has been tangible.”
After announcing funeral arrangements, the younger Buhler
added,
“We are grieving in our souls but
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Host of “Talk From the Heart” on
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for Christian talk radio, having picked
up the airwaves bug as a teen. Before
launching the talk-show format at
KBRT, he helped to develop the station’s news department.
After a brief break from radio to
undergo cancer treatment, Buhler
returned to the air but broadcast his
final show in September so that he
could concentrate on his health.
“This week Christian Radio lost a
hero, a pioneer who changed the face
of Christian radio,” a statement on
the KBRT website said. “Rich Buhler
opened doors for the birth of many
ministries. He made listeners feel safe
and brought God’s unconditional love
to so many souls nationwide through
radio.
The statement also commended
the radioman for his valiant battle
with cancer.
“Our beloved Rich Buhler fought the
good fight and is now joined with his
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” it said.
In addition to his passion for radio,
Buhler was a pilot who was involved with
Mission Aviation Fellowship.
Buhler is survived by his wife,
Dianne, 10 children and 12 grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made
to Mission Aviation Fellowship at www.
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in North America and is the nation’s
largest Christian ministry for men
and women dealing with same-sex
attraction, though it is not involved in
reparative therapy work.
Officials from NARTH, however,
disagree, and they testified in the
Senate hearing that scientific assumptions used to support the need for the
law were based on biased studies and
misrepresentations about the therapy,
which Lieu referred to as “Sexual Orientation Change Efforts” in his bill.
For instance, NARTH maintains
that the committee that drafted a
2009 American Psychological Association report cited by SB 1172 excluded
anyone who practiced the treatment or
was sympathetic to its benefits.
“(It) ended up being comprised of
professionals who essentially were in
ideological lock step with one another
in their preconceived notions regarding SOCE,” said a letter to the committee by NARTH President Christopher
H. Rosik, Ph.D.
In addition, NARTH officials said
that the bill ignores research favorable
toward reparative therapy.
“We believe that SB 1172 would
make for bad law based on its misrepresentation of the science pertaining
to SOCE, its potential to unnecessarily
restrict client and parental choices and
its assumption of the regulatory functions of mental health associations and
licensing boards,” Rosik wrote.
If successful in both chambers, the
SB 1172 would then advance to Gov.
Jerry Brown for his signature. Brown
has historically approved bills supportive of the gay and lesbian agenda.
Assist News Service contributed
to this article.
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tion change efforts have not been
shown to be safe or effective and
can, in fact, be harmful. The risks
include, but are not limited to, depression, anxiety, and self-destructive behavior and suicide.”
The form must also include statements critical of the practice from the
American Psychological Association,
American Academy of Pediatrics,
American Medical Association’s Council on Scientific Affairs and National
Association of Social Workers.
“Some therapists are taking advantage of vulnerable people by
pushing dangerous sexual orientation-change efforts,” Lieu said at
the May 8 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. “These non-scientific
efforts have led in some cases to
patients’ later committing suicide,
as well as severe mental and physical anguish.”
Reparative therapy, espoused by
numerous national mental health
organizations, provides treatments for
patients with unwanted same-sex attractions to become ex-gays. Thousands of
gays and lesbians have testified to the
success of the treatment and have gone
on to live successfully as heterosexuals.
Exodus International, for example,
has more than 260 member agencies
A true believer
David Pickup, a registered California
therapist, testified before the Senate
Judiciary Committee, saying he is proof
the treatment works.
“I will admit there is quackery out
there,” the therapist told the committee. “But reparative therapy, which is
what I do, authentic reparative therapy,
is absolutely based on science, good
research, and it works.”
The method is also endorsed by the
National Association for Research and
Therapy of Homosexuality, which said
the proposed legislation ignores solid
research extolling the benefits of the
treatment for those wishing to leave
the gay lifestyle.
Opponents of the therapy, however, insist that homosexuality is not a
medical condition and that attempts
to convert are not only unethical but
also harmful.
“Being lesbian or gay or bisexual
is not a disease or mental disorder
for the same reason that being a heterosexual is not a disease or a mental
disorder,” Lieu testified. “The medical
community is unanimous in stating
that homosexuality is not a medical
condition.”
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Bonnie Dumanis (R)
Bob Filner (D)
Nathan Fletcher (I)
Woody Woodrum (R)
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ESCONDIDO — The Palomar
Pomerado Health Foundation is
spearheading a capital campaign
to include a chapel at the new Palomar Health Center, which is scheduled to open in August.
Thanks to an initial drive of
hospital employees, the campaign
has already raised $110,000 of is
$500,000 goal. Officials are hoping
to raise the remainder of the money by the end of June, which could
potentially mean a late 2012 opening for the chapel.
“Chapels are very central in all
hospitals,” said Ann Braun, executive director and chief development
officer for the Palomar Health
Foundation, which oversees all capital campaigns. “They are really the
heart of the hospital. Regardless of
someone’s faith, that is frequently
where people will go for comfort.”
The new hospital was funded
primarily through a taxpayer-approved ballot measure and will include terraced gardens and other
art element designed to improve
healing.
“It will be art and science,” Braun
said.
Although the hospital plans included dedicated space for the
chapel, increased construction
costs prompted administrators to
delay the chapel to focus on patient
rooms and observation centers for
the medical staff.
“The chapel had to be delayed
slightly so that we could raise the
private support necessary,” the
foundation administrator said.
“Frequently the chapels in hospitals room where families can gather for
are paid for through philanthropy, private spiritual care. Five chapand that’s why we felt strongly we lains, funded by private donations,
would be able to accomplish that.” are assigned to the hospital.
Covering 850-square miles, the
Braun lauded the efforts of Alma
Davis, a nurse, and Sonia Lopez, an hospital district is the largest in the
executive and board assistant, for state and serves residents in northpushing the capital campaign for ern San Diego County and south
the chapel.
“We have
a lot of faith
that (this) is
going to happen,” Lopez
said.
The fundraising effort,
Braun added,
has been driven by the fa- An artist rendering of the new Palomar Medical Center
cility’s nurses, opening this summer.
who
began
mobilizing late last year after get- Riverside. In addition to serving
ting word about the chapel’s lack of the public, the chapel is also a viinterior funding.
tal resource for staff who often face
“This is just a wonderful effort crisis situations as a regular course
and also a symbol of our absolute of their work.
commitment to completing this
“We feel very strongly that this is
part of the new Palomar Medical a place where people come for help
Center,” she said.
and we are caring for people with
In all, more than 400 employ- all different levels of need and we
ees raised the $110,000, with some believe this is a place where God
funding coming from outside do- is close because of the type of misnors. In the next month, the focus sion we have to care for everyone,”
will shift to the community.
Braun said.
“We are committed” Braun said.
Donations may be made online
“There is no way that we can fail be- but must be designed for the chacause we won’t stop until we raise pel fund or will automatically be
the money that is needed to com- applied to the hospital’s general
plete that chapel so that families campaign.
and patients and staff and physicians can go for a quiet moment.”
In addition to the chapel, the pphfoundation.org or call (760)
space will also include a meditation 739-2785.
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MINISTRIES
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Quiet, cul-de-sac (858) 717-2363.
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BOOKS
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COUNSELING
Lighthouse Family Counseling. (619) 460-1200,
lighthousefamilycounseling.org
DISC JOCKEYS
When someone you love is gay. Christian ministry
to families needing help coping with homosexuality. Group meeting. First Tuesday of every month,
7-9pm. Fireside Room, Education Building, San
Diego First Assembly of God, 8404 Phyllis Place.
(619) 426-9300.
Expert Proofreading and Editing. Get it right before
your readers see it! Dick, (619) 448-4755.
MUSIC/MUSICIANS
Christian singles activities for Southern California
— dinner-dances, cruises, New Year’s Eve dance,
fun activities. Visit ChristianSinglesFunEvents.com
or call (714) 622-4002.
ROOFING
Fun, organized Christian DJ & wife will help you
plan & coordinate your event. We also teach
Swing, Salsa, Country & more. Lighting available.
Low cost, top quality. Guaranteed. New, recover,
repair. Dennis Cook Roofing. Lic. # 545185. Call
(619) 443-1300.
www.JimHenryDJ.com
1-800-805-5497
Electronic Repair. TVs, microwaves, etc. Honest
work at low rates. Dick, (619) 448-4755.
Same sex attracted? Or have a loved one who is?
Join us each Thursday 7pm, Skyline Church, La
Mesa, Campo Road. Safe, confidential, supportive.
Tedd (619) 250-7488, All welcome.
Getting Married?
Party? Fundraiser?
SINGLES
Xerox CopyCentre C118 11x17 large format. Top condition,
lightly used. Almost like new. Includes rolling stand with paper
storage. $295
Desk:
Oak office desk, 30x60, with secretarial arm. $150
File cabinets (2): Metal with 4 drawers. $25 each
Printer: HP LaserJet 5000gn 11x17 laser printer. Two trays. Good
working condition. A real workhorse printer if you need large
format printing. $150
Printer: HP LaserJet P2015dn laser printer. Good working condition.
$95
Exhibit: 10’ curved tradeshow exhibit display. Black. Includes cases.
Easy set-up and take-down. $125
Home Furnishings and Household Items
Couch:
Lowest Possible Fares on airline tickets. Deal with
a Christian Travel Agency. Dick, (619) 448-4755.
VACATION/RETREAT
RENTALS
Dishes: Pfaltzgraff Tea Rose dish set (90 pieces) in excellent condition.
Feed up to 12. Entire set $225.
Send inquiries to [email protected].
We can email you photos on most items.
Must pick up in La Mesa/Rancho San Diego.
Reasonable offers may be considered.
Lake Arrowhead Vacation Homes—Great for families, retreats, reunions. (562) 427-9810.
EDUCATION
A very comfy blue couch. No stains. Excellent condition. $40
Recliner: Blue recliner. $15
TRAVEL
Dils Roofing & Repairs. Free estimates. License
#639961. 1-800-501-7663.
Copier:
Phone System: Full featured Nitsuko 4-line, 6-phone telephone &
voicemail system. $200
SERVICES
Guitar Lessons. Veteran worship leader and guitarist Scott Coyle is now accepting guitar students.
All levels welcome. Call (619) 490-9690 for more
information and availability.
Office Furniture and Equipment
Bankruptcy or Immigration Paralegal. Training,
certificate & placement. $395 (626) 552-2885.
How to personally know God
Come join our team!
HELP WANTED
Social Services. Promising Futures, ser ving
DD population in East County, seeking reliable,
dedicated individuals to fill the following full time
and part time positions. Raises/bonuses for
exceptional work. Residential program: Program
Manager, Program Instructor. Overtime opportunities available. Salary start from $8-$10/hour.
Center for Independent Achievement Day Program:
Instructor/Job Coach, $8.50-$9.50/hour. Phone
(619) 592-4850, fax (619) 592-4878 or email
resume to [email protected].
HOUSING FOR RENT
Mount Miguel Covenant Village is a Christian Retirement Community just a
few miles east of San Diego, Calif. Our community consists of eleven residential
apartment buildings, a 48-unit assisted living facility and our skilled nursing center.
Our 28 acre park-like setting has been applauded for its beauty and is enjoyed by
residents and employees alike. We are an accredited continuing care retirement
community, and are part of Covenant Retirement Communities (CRC), a not-forprofit corporation, dedicated to the service of others.
Employment Opportunities
We are currently seeking energetic professionals with great communication
skills for the following full-time or part-time positions:
■ Med Tech (PT)
Escondido, apt, unfurnished, 1 BR, excellent area/
lake view. No smoking/pets. $950 includes utilities.
Single Christian person wanted. (760) 480-5750.
■ Servers (PT)
■ Caregiver (per diem)
Find us online at
If you enjoy working with seniors, we want you to be a part of our missionoriented team! Persons with an active Christian faith are encouraged to apply.
To apply for these positions, or to inquire about other open positions, please
e-mail resume w/salary history to jobs.MountMiguel.CV@covenantretirement.
org, or fax to (619) 931-1237, or apply in person at 325 Kempton St., Spring
Valley, CA 91977. EOE.
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Realize that you are a sinner.
No matter how good a life we try to
live, we still fall miserably short of
being a good person. That is because
we are all sinners. We all fall short
of God’s desire for us to be holy.
The Bible says, “There is no one
righteous—not even one” (Romans
3:10 NIV). This is because we cannot
become who we are supposed to be
without Jesus Christ.
Recognize that Jesus died on the
cross and rose from the dead.
The Bible tells us, “But God
demonstrates His own love for us
in this: While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8
NIV). This is the Good News, that
God loves us so much that He sent
His only Son to die in our place
when we least deserved it.
Repent of your sin.
The Bible tells us to “repent and turn
to God” (Acts 3:19 NIV). The word
repent means to change our direction
in life. Instead of running from God,
we can run toward Him.
Receive Christ into your life.
Becoming a Christian is not merely
believing some creed or going to
church. It is having Christ Himself
take residence in your life and heart.
“If you declare with your mouth,
‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your
heart that God raised Him from the
dead, you will be saved” (Romans
10:9 NIV).
If you would like to have a relationship with Jesus Christ, simply pray
this prayer with complete sincerity.
Dear Lord Jesus, I know I am a
sinner. I believe you died for my sins
and rose again. Right now, I turn
from my sins and open the door of
my heart and life. I confess you as
my personal Lord and Savior. Thank
you for saving me. Amen.
If you just prayed that prayer and
meant it, Jesus Christ has now
taken residence in your heart! Your
decision to follow Christ means God
has forgiven you and that you will
spend eternity in heaven. The Bible
tells us, “If we confess our sins, he
is faithful and just and will forgive
us our sins and purify us from all
unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9 NIV).
To put your faith in action, be sure
to spend time with God by reading
your Bible, praying, getting involved
in a Bible-preaching church, and
telling others about Christ.
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June 2012—San Diego county

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