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'C c ea C C H R I S T I A N W O R K E R ' The service costs $15.00 per year for 12 separate mailings. This includes meeting plans, party ideas, varied activities, helps on advertising the meetings, plus a host of other valuable information. Since its inception sev eral years ago, CWSB has outlined several hundred completely different program ideas. “We haven’t had to duplicate, and the surface has hardly been scratched,” Santa injected. When asked about which meeting has been most widely used, Director Santa thought for a moment and re plied, “ It might be one of our first,
O u r burden is to help train work ers in the church,” the Rev. George Santa, director of Christian Worker’s Service Bureau frankly de clares. “More than 5,000 church groups are now using our materials which reach approximately 100,000 young people every week,” he con tinued. Started in January, 1953, the six year old growing organization, with headquarters in Gardena, Calif., has
John Whorall, CWSB Art Director, designs brochures and regular monthly publications for distribution. course, Santa also worked on the radio staff of WMBI, where he met his wife. “ I used to play the trumpet and she played the organ,” he smiled in recol lection. “ She’s now organist at the North Redondo Chapel where we attend; but my trumpet was stolen several years ago, so that gives me a good excuse!” As Director of Conti nuity for radio station WMBI, he directed the production of thousands of scripts in four years. Other experience was gained in preparation for his present work as scriptwriter for Moody Institute of Science, and through working in churches in Wheaton, Illinois, Pacific Grove and Seaside, California as well as other areas in California. The main work of CWSB has been to produce monthly 80-page packets of material for young people’s groups.
Mrs. Ruth Santa, co-founder of CWSB, spends much of her time in correspondence connected with the growing ministry. ‘Word of Life Cafe.’ This is where the meeting room is set up as a restaurant with four people at each table. Visi-
Director Santa checks over supply of shipping materials with CWSB staff member Anita Matties. 80-page packets are sent out monthly.
Lester C. Siegfried, Assistant Director of CWSB, confers with Rev. Santa concerning a new publication. a staff of a dozen assigned to various areas of work. This includes art de signing, creating ideas, writing, pro duction, mailing, and general office routine. Assistant Director of the Bureau is Lester C. Siegfried, youth leader of long experience who for merly worked with youth groups in Illinois. “While working with young people in the Midwest Bible Church of Chi cago,” Rev. Santa recalled, “ ray wife and I felt burdened to do something to make the program for teen-agers more attractive and more interest ing.” Trained at the Moody Bible Institute where he took the pastor’s 42
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