“ This year we had 13 young people coming to Biola for training. No doubt there will be more next year,” he promised. “ The most important thing in youth work,” Royal Blue pointed out, “ is taking plenty of time with the young people and realizing a complete dependence upon the Lord to make sure that the young people have confidence in you as their spir itual leader. An average of close to a hundred young people have accepted Christ as their Saviour per year, for the past five years. “ In our Sunday School educational program, we have three Junior High groups, two Senior High groups, and one College Department. In our Bap tist Youth Fellowship, we have two Junior High Departments, one Senior High and one College. We have a Senior High prayer meeting every Sunday night at 5:50 with a Junior High prayer meeting at 7:15 preced ing the Wednesday evening service. The camping program both in winter and summer at Arrowpines is a stra tegic ministry. “ Our Christian service includes visiting the Baptist Children’s Home in Inglewood, the Atherton Christian Home for old folks and the Union Rescue Mission, where we take the entire service once a month. We have also been asked to go to the Olive View Sanitorium and minister to the tubercular patients in that area. Many of our young people work with the Valley Youth Roundup which God lead Louis Zamperini and me to start. In three years, we have had over 500 decisions in this once-a-month Satur day night youth Rally, with fifty dif ferent churches in the Valley cooper ating.” The complete story of Royal Blue cannot be written with mere words, for it is being engraved daily in the lives of young people who have been reached with the Gospel by this faith ful servant of Christ. APRIL, 1959
Teenage girls' trio is composed of Kathy Barrett, Sharol Whalen and Shirley Wyatt.
Van Nuys 1st Baptist young people attending BIOLA are (first row): Betty Ruddick, Delores Inman, Lucy Loren, Jean Neis, Kathy Barrett; (second row): Carl Beach, John Atherton, Richard Page, Walt Olsen. (Others attending are not in photo.) Minister of Music at the 1st Baptist Church of Van Nuys, John Gustafson, leads his teenage choir of 60 voices.
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