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1 mimmimt mm yyw'T mmm ynryii yijiai mm H(mni mm in yW wr Friday, Feb. 12, 1982 Santa Cruz Sentinel 57 Be Alive Vivacious Minister Says: Wzir "Australia probably will be the first, then any and all other countries that will allow us to go in there." The thrice-married, thrice-divorced Terry Cole-Whittaker was paid a reported salary of $89,608 in 1979, including a 60 percent commission on classes which she conducts and royalties on tape sale of spoken messages. The salary from her church today, she says, is about $60,000 and "certainly" far above what any other minister in San Diego makes. In addition, she said in an interview she makes that much again with the nonprofit Terry Cole Whittaker Ministries and half-hour TV classes seen by a reported 200,000 listeners in the Los Angeles area, San Diego and by cable from Palm Springs and Bishop, to El Paso, Texas. "We plan to be in Seattle and San Francisco by June," she says.

Almost 80,000 copies were sold of her first book, "What You think of Me is None of Your Business." Another book is in the works. She lives with her 19-year-old daughter Becky, soon to be married, their parrot and dachshund Oscar in a plush La Jolla house worth several hundred thousand dollars. She drives a 1979 white Cadillac with red interior. The lifestyle befits the career successes of Terry Reich, born in 1940 in Los Angeles, homecoming queen of Orange Coast College, onetime light opera singer who turned to est and other self-motivations after placing third in the 1968 Mrs. America contest.

Her husbands were banker-investment counselor John Cole, father of her two daughters; John Whittaker, a radio station account executive; and Michael Peterson, a former football player in the Canadian Football League. In addition to five years of ministerial training in the United Church of Religious Science in Los Angeles, "I have done actualization, Burkland business School, transactional analysis, transcendental meditation, Gestalt. I turn upside down a couple of times a day in my new anti-gravity machine I do whatever I feel intuitively drawn to," she recounted in a recent interview. Religious Science teaches that people harm themselves through improper thinking. But its glamorous preacher in San Diego disputes the claim by some that its orientation is selfishness.

"In each of us is the ability to live a full, rich, rewarding life," she says. "That's what our rrinistry is about love, compassion and being it all, not missing out in life." By DAN TEDRICK SAN DIEGO (AP) Cushioned comfortably in the downtown California Theater, which actors share on weekdays, the congregation hardly noticed the shout in all the upbeat exuberance: "Right on, Rev. Terry, right on!" A vivacious blonde, the Rev. Terry Cole-Whittaker was up there exhorting her followers to live life to the fullest. "Be alive," she called out, but with no beseeching, no talk of the devil or hell or failure in life.

In the five years since Mrs. California of 1968 arrived with her message, moving from motivational speaking to a ministry of her own with the La Jolla Church of Religious Science, the congregation has grown from 50 to "possibly 4,000 we're still unsure of that." In two crowded Sunday sessions, about 2,500 is an average turnout. They could be Baptists or Presbyterians, of all ages and degrees of wealth. The goal is "a worldwide television ministry in the next four years," says the Rev. Terry, as she likes to be called.

"Already, we sell audio cassettes worldwide through subscription and we're starting to producing video cassettes so I can be with them in the video. 77ie Terry Cole-Whittaker delivering one of her upbeat sermons Christian Unity On The Rise On The Bookshelf Religious Roundup Doctrinal Accord Touted As Watershed Churches Cast Aside Denominational Differences CLEVELAND (AP) The newly elected president of the National Council of Churches, United Methodist Bishop James Armstrong of Indiana, says he will emphasize an "authentic spirituality" as head of the nation's largest ecumenical organization, as well as action on critical social issues. He says the stress on spiritual matters is being undertaken not as "a ploy to meet criticism but as a response to human need" in the modern atmosphere. As for social issues, he cited the need for attention to the nuclear arms race, a resurgence of racism, revitalizing family life and the "growing disparity between rich and poor." Armstrong was elected for a three-year term to head the cooperative organization of most major Protestant and Eastern Orthodox denominations. He is the fourth Methodist to hold the post in the organization's 30 years.

He succeeds the Rev. William Howard an American Baptist, on Jan. I. NEW YORK (AP) The first American ever to head the Salvation Army in Britain, Commissioner John D. Needham, has been appointed national commander of the Army in the United States.

The American-reared Needham, who has headed the Salvationists in Britain since the start of 1980, was named to succeed U.S. Commissioner Ernest W. Holz, who is retiring Dec. 1. The national commander serves as chief administrator of the Army's national operations, including its more than 11,000 U.

S. centers, and as its chief spokesman. THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS, by Janet Backhouse, Cornel University Press, $25. Says Robert Calkins, chairman and professor of history and art at Cornell University, "Janet Backhouse's book is a fresh, informative discussion of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts. It will do for the Lindisfarne Gospels what Francoise Henry did for the Book of Kells." Among the world's great masterpieces of book illumination, the Lindisfarne Gospels were produced in the island monastery of Lindisfarne, in northeastern England at the end of the seventh century.

The scribe Eadfrith penned and illuminated it, and another monk, Ethewald, bound the manuscript. A third, Billfrith, decorated it with gold and gems. Janet Backhouse's book is the first to make the splendor of the Lindisfarne Gospels available to a wide audience and all the major illuminated pages the miniature of the Evangelists, the subtle and intricate cross-carpet pages, and the ornate full-page initials are reproduced in in color. Also included is a full history of the manuscript. The author is assistant keeper in the Department of Western Manuscripts at the British Library in London, which owns the Lindisfarne Gospels.

From a layman's point of view, this is a magnificent volume. MILDRED ANN SMITH By GEORGE W. CORNELL NEW YORK (AP) Church scholars see a new agreement by representatives of all the world's major Christian traditions on long-disputed doctrinal issues as a watershed in the quest for Christian unity. The agreement, variously called the "convergence document" or "Lima test," was reached at a meeting in Lima, Peru of representatives of Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and the various branches of Protestantism. The accord is "an ecumenical achievement of historical signficance" says United Methodist theologian John Deschner of Dallas.

Roman Catholic theologian Jean Tillard of Canada called it a "framework for church union" and "proof that the Holy Spirit is at work." The document, developed through years of intercon-fessional dialogue, offers broad agreement on three of the thorniest issues dividing Christiaity baptism, the eucharist and the ministry. The consensus reached calls for acceptance of varying approaches to these practices and asks the churches to make official responses to the agreement at the "highest appropriate levels of authority." It was approved unanimously at a meeting in January of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches. Its member denominations as well as others are represented on the commission. They include Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, United, Baptist, Methodist, Disciples and Adventist traditions. Theologian Paul Crow of Indianapolis, ecumenical officer of the Christian Church (Discipless of Christ), called the accord "a miracle." He says it may be "the most radical thing ever done" under World Council auspices.

The agreement is the culmination of a quarter century of ecumenical dialogue that has accelerated and greatly broadened in the last 15 years with the entry into it of Roman Catholicism. An earlier version of the document was produced in 1976 and circulated among the churches, with their reactions used in refining the new agreement. It "overcomes many of the classical differences in dogma," says Lutheran theologian William Lazareth, the commission's director. Roman Catholic theologian Avery Dulles of Washington says "it is amazing how much we can say in common" about the three key topics. He says dialogue has "built up a common ground that we have not had for centuries." where denominational separateness seemed puzzling.

Such circumstances have produced the broadest reunions, notably in Pakistan and India, the first consummated in 1947 in the pioneering Church of South India, embracing Anglicans, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Methodists. The same diverse groups united in Pakistan in 1970, and that same year in North India, with three additional bodies, Baptists, Brethren and Disciples, included. India's unified churches, north and south, in 1975 constituted a joint council of "One Church of Jesus Christ in India," also involving India's Mar Thoma Orthodox Church. Other unions of most Protestant groups, usually not including Anglicans, have arisen, some recently, some decades ago, in Japan, the Philippines, Canada, Zambia, Zaire, Madgascar, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. The oldest union is Germany's Evangelical Church of the Union, dating back to 1817, embracing Reformed (Calvinist-Presbyterian) and Lutheran elements.

It is the main Protestant church in East Germany, second to Lutherans in West Germany, with whom talks now are getting started for fuller unification. Both those mainline traditions, Reformed and Lutheran, were included in a tiny united church in South Arabia in 1961. The most recent unions came among the Protestant minority in Belgium in 1978 and in 1977 in Australia. There, large factions stayed out. "It's often costly," Post said, referring to such dropouts.

When the 1.5-million-member U.S. church he heads was formed in 1957, it lost nearly 100,000 Congregational Christians who refused to join in merger with the Evangelical and Reformed Church. The unifying process also is slow and difficult, often taking 30 years or more, he said, but dedication to it continues unflagging "not only because of the scandal of division, but because churches realize that unity in Christ is the greatest asset in their By GEORGE W. CORNELL NEW YORK (AP) A distinctively cross-bred kind of church has spread around the world in the modern age, forerunners in the cause of Christian unity. They've abandoned tribal labels, combining their separate heritages into one.

A "creative edge," they're sometimes described, "signs" of a coming reunited Christianity, pre-figurings of the "still-to-be." Since they involve varied origins and descent, none of the traditional denominational categories are sufficiently inclusive to fit, so the intermingled results are typically called "United" or "Uniting" churches. "They're a special sort of church with a very special experience," says the Rev. Avery Post, president of the United Church of Christ in the U.S.A. He recently met with leaders of such bodies from around the globe. "They have a special word about the nature of the church and its unity to speak to those churches which have remained within their own confessional bounds," he said in an interview.

By fusing different traditions, the united churches "have built some bridges," he added. "They're a new form of witness. It's only partial and not final, but its a catalyst to wider Christian unity." Post, who last month attended an international consultation in Colombo, Sri Lanka, of "United and Uniting Churches," said they are "clear benchmarks" in the overall ecumenical movement. They're both a "product of it" and a foretokening of its destiny, he said. "They're a growing voice in it, alongside other voices, and attracting considerable attention worldwide." Internationally, there are 23 such trans-denominational church bodies, interweaving backgrounds and ways of different Protestant and sometimes catholic (Anglican but not Roman) traditions in varying composites.

They aren't "superchurches" in size and many arose in areas where Christians are a small minority, where mutual support seemed particularly needed and divisions appeared most damaging. "How many Christs are there?" it often was asked in such environments Ttvin EVANCFLK'AL ORTHODOX CHURCH Santa Cruz Diocese, fVrl Public Meeting fvfflM Sunday 9:30 a.m. I Santa Cruz Live Oak -4 Grange Hall 1900 17th Avenue Hir.f,.m, I holntliinK.i, thr Lakes Baptist Church 2701 Cabrlllo Collage Aptoi Sunday Services 9:45 a.m. 11:00 a.m. WORD OF FAITH FELLOWSHIP If you enjoy the ministry of Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin and Charles Capps you'll really be excited about the new work meeting at the Aptos Grange, 2555 Mar Vista every Tuesday evening.

For further information call Charles Hart at 688-2535. Call For Tax Strike Twenty-three Lutherans, including 12 clergymen, have signed a call for tax resistance against the arms race, declaring, "We will no longer pay for war while praying for peace." The call was issued by the Lutheran Peace Fellowship and is being circulated nationwide. The Rev. Dennis Jacobsen, fellowship coordinator, says hundreds of Lutherans are expected to sign. SBmBSm COMMUNITY CHURCH GOD dAptos i Sunday Morning fir) Worship III 8:30 11:08 a.m.

t) TOOLS FOR CHRIST" J- Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Sunday Evening -Service 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Nrght Family Night 7:00 p.m. 7200 Freedom Blvd. Pastor Stan Srewaro 4 lit Avenue Brommer Phone 475-8617 9:45 a.m.

Church School Nunery Care Provided at I All Services REV. GEORGE KEISEY Missionary from Jordon Guest Speaker SPECIAl MUSIC Solo: Ron Hill mission. -FIRST- 10:45 A M. "IlISSID AH THEY THAT MOUM" Pastor Frank Yerden speaking at both services The Congregational Church of Soquel Soojuei A Confr Srs. founded 1864 Telephone 475-2867 Warship Sarvkos it 1 1 a.m.

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SUNDAY SCHOOL AND ADULT CLASS 9:45 A.M. Nursery Facilities Provided LhltU UNITY TEMPLE 407 Broadway Santa Cruz Phone: 423-8333 1:45 o.m. Sunday School 1 1 :00 o.m. Worship "THE WISDOM OF SPIRITUAL MATURITY" 1 Corinthians 2:6 3:4 Second of fries: "God's Amarlng Answers to Our Perpleiirig ProUomt" 6:30 p.m. Wonhip "LIT US KICP THE FEAST" 1 Corinthians 5: 6-8 Sutond of torioi: "Christ In Iho Femts Of IsroeT John Heberling.

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BAPTIST CHURCH 131 Bulb Santa Crui FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 9:00 a.m. Church School-All Ages 10:00 a.m. Coffee Hour 10:30 Worship Service "HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD" College of Idaho Choir Concert 8:00 P.M. Wednesday litin tn "Irnioht" with Pastor Tom Corr. Radio Ministry Morning Chimes 7:00 a.m.

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