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May, 1936
T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
Children for Christ
By Mildred M. Cook
W ork A mong Y oung G irls For that energetic company composed of girls of high school and junior high school age, the Euodia Club has been formed—-the name taken from the Greek word meaning “fragrance.” There are at the present time forty-five individual clubs among high schools and junior high schools in Los Angeles and vicinity. In one month, the total attendance in Euodia meetings was 2,700. Classes meet weekly in schools or near-by homes. The arrangement of the study course takes a girl through her Bible in four years of Euodia Club attendance. These classes are taught by Institute Bible Women and their helpers. The response that these girls give to the gospel, and the glorious results that follow their acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour, constitute a story that cannot be understood in all its gratifying details until “the books are opened.” E vangelistic W ork on the B each For five consecutive summers, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles has carried on a full program of evangelistic activities among children' and young people in one of the popular beach towns near Los An geles. The first day of the first year the attendance was eighteen.. Last year, the average daily attendance for a month was between 65 and 100, with as many as 160 attending on one day. The plan of operation is simple. Living for a month in a rented house near the ocean front, the group of seven Institute representatives, five of whom are students, go to the beach each week-day morning with folding organ, parasols, and banner marked “Children’s Special Service Mis sion.” The young people begin to Sing and play, and their music ahd happy faces inter
School and week-day church school), and Recreational Leadership. The degree of Bachelor of Christian Education will be conferred upon students who satisfactorily complete the four-year course in Christian Education. Not only for ,students of the Christian Education Course, but for every young man and woman enrolled in the school, classes in Personal Evangelism are held., A merica ’ s C hallenge . While over half the children of the United States receive no Christian educa tion whatever, there remains a field “white already to harvest” “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers arei few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, \ that he will send forth laborers into his har vest.” The Bible Institute of Los Angeles
est the boys and girls who come from all directions and sit down on the sand around the organ. There follow object lessons, chalk talks, or lessons worked out on the sand. Last year, 188 meetings were held on the beach, which resulted in the conver sion of fifty-four persons,, and the con secration to Christ of twenty-one others. >1. -S pecial T raining O ffered Preparing students for efficient and spiritual work among children and young people, the Institute offers in the Christian Education Coursé the following special su b je c ts: Departmental Specialization, History of Christian Education, Curricu lum Making, Practice Teaching, Sunday- School' Supervision and' Administration (which1 includes1 Daily Vacation Bible
determines, by the grace of God, to advance boldly and quickly into this great untouched field, im pelled by the sense of per sonal responsibility for the eternal welfare of the nation’s youth. Who will share in the burden and in the challenge? Who will help to train Institute st udent s that they may go forth to win souls? Remember—there are twenty-seven m i l l i o n growing up in sin, with out Christ. What differ ence would it make in your attitude t o w a r d these thousands of unre generated young people if of one of them you must say, “O God, he is my boy, she is my girl” ? Constrained by everlast ing Love, will you not choose to have a part in the gracious ministry now going on as Biola wins children for Christ?
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