A Devotional Guide for the School of Prayer, comprised of ...
A Devotional Guide for the School of Prayer, comprised of materials drawn from the Bible and the writings of Ellen G. White, and issued under the auspices of the Ministerial Association. The compilation has been submitted for review to the Ellen G. White Estate.
Ministerial Association General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
COMMUNION WITH GOD
? 1997 Ministerial Association
The author assumes full responsibility for the accuracy of all facts and quotations cited in this book.
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form, except for brief excerpts in reviews, without the written permission of the publisher.
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible. Texts credited to Amplified are from The Amplified Bible. Copyright 1965 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49506. Texts credited to NEB are from The New English Bible.? The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1961, 1970. Reprinted by permission. Texts credited to RSV are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright ? 1946, 1952, 1971 , by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission. Texts credited to Weymouth are from Weymouth's New Testament in Modern Speech by Richard Francis Weymouth. Copyright by Kregel Publications 1978, a division of Kregel Inc. Used by permission.
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The Ministerial Association General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Silver Spring, MD 20904
Printed in the U.S.A. by Pacific Press Publishing Association
Nampa, Idaho
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COMMUNION WITH GOD
In 1962 the church at Saint Helena Sanitarium, California, enjoyed a revival and gained renewed strength through a "School of Prayer" conducted by the pastor and several retired workers of long experience who made up the faculty.
The school commenced with a Sabbath morning church service, after which classes met for six weeks on prayer-meeting night. To provide adequate time for instruction and participation, the usual time for prayer meeting was extended to an hour and a half. The class session consisted in a presentation by one of the members of the faculty, followed by a panel discussion or by small group meetings. There was also a daily period of personal study and prayer at home.
It soon became apparent that more effective work would be done if key quotations could be drawn together from the rich sources of the Ellen G. White writings and placed in the hands of the class members for personal study and contemplation. Fifty such studies, entitled Communion With God, were prepared by the faculty and duplicated. Those leading in this initial project were Elder C. M. Mellor, pastor of the Sanitarium church; Elder A. L. Ham, a former vice-president of the General Conference; Elder and Mrs. Taylor G. Bunch, who for long years carried responsibilities in conference leadership and pastoral work; and Miss Minnie Dauphinee, veteran college dean of women.
This "School of Prayer" proved to be such a blessing that the instructors were invited to present the program in other churches. For this, additional copies of the Communion With God guide were needed. Three thousand were distributed, yet the supply was soon exhausted and requests for more kept coming. It soon became evident that thousands of our members are eager for the blessing accruing from such periods of devotion. It was therefore felt wise that this study guide be published in an attractive but
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