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IBADAN, NIGERIA
Some 370,000 of the World Bible
Translation Center’s Easy-to-Read English
Bibles were distributed on Nov. 11 at a con-
ference for church leaders in Ibadan,
Nigeria. It was the largest singleday Bible
distribution in history, said Roger Massey
of Fort Worth, Texas-based WBTC.
Put on by Christ for all Nations ministry
and led by German evangelist Reinhard
Bonnke, more than 1.3 million attended.
“These campaigns are tailor-made for
Bible distribution,” said WBTC President
Dale Randolph. “(We) can distribute our
Easy-to-Read Bibles everywhere and come
into contact with people whom we would
otherwise never reach.”
More than 70,000 Nigerian church lead-
ers crowded into Ibadan’s Liberty Stadium
TO REACH CAPSTONE, e-mail info&apstonetreatment-
center.com or see www.capstonetreatmentcentef.com
He is survived by his wife of 70 years
Mignon. Memorials may be sent to Morehead
State, Freed-Hardeman University or the
Berea or North Lexington, Ky., congregations.
Treatment center
for teens opens
SEARCY, ARK.
Parents who use drugs have kids who use
drugs, went the old public service
announcement.
That’s changed, said Adrian Hickmon. Now
the fastest-growing group of chemically
dependent adolescents is first-generation.
“They’re from church-going families in
which there are loving parents and committed
marriages, but no alcoholism or drug addic-
tion," said Hickmon, executive director and
co-owner of the new Capstone Treatment
Center for adolescent males
dealing with chemical depen-
dency.
The state-licensed residential
center near Searcy is the first
such facility owned and operat-
ed by church members,
according to Troy Foster, clini-
cal director and co-owner.
The center, housed on a 32- Hickmon
acre wooded site with cabins
and a lodge, accepted its first clients in
September for its 60-day treatment regimen
which includes a two-week outdoor trek.
Besides Hickmon and Foster, the center is
served by Bonnie Phillips, family therapy
coordinator; Jeremy Lindsey, wilderness coor-
dinator; Becky Purdy, director of operations;
and therapists Scott Bonk and Anne Rana.
Capstone’s treatment program, which is
Christ-centered, has two phases. The first
requires abstinence from alcohol and/or
drugs. The second initiates the process of
leaving the drug culture and entering the
Christian culture.
Participants in the program care for a puppy
as part of the therapy.
Capstone clients are eligible for insurance
benefits, Hickmon said.
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founded James H. Cone Inc., one of the
largest general contracting firms in Arkansas.
He was on numerous boards including
those of Central Arkansas Christian Schools,
ROB BIRKBECK\CHR6T FOR ALL NATIONS MINISTRY
Conference-goers proudly display their newly acquired WBTC Bibles in Nigeria.
The Christian Chronicle and World Christian
Broadcasting. He was an elder for 30 years of
the Pleasant Valley church, Little Rock.
He is survived by his wife, Bonnie; three
children, Annette Herrington, Jimmy Cone
and Maria Henry, all of Little
Rock; and four grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to
Harding or Central Arkansas
Christian Schools.
Doran, 92, was born in 1909
in rural Graves County,
Kentucky. He received degrees al boards including Freed-Hardeman’s.
from Freed-Hardeman College
Doran and Murray State College and
a doctorate from the University of Kentucky.
His career in education included service as a
high school teacher, coach and principal. He
was director of teacher education and certifi-
WBTC distributes 370,000 Bibles
for a conference organized in conjunction
with Bonnke’s five-day preaching cam-
paign. On the last day of the conference,
each attendee fortunate enough to get a
seat found a bag of five Bibles under it
They were encouraged to distribute them
to members of their congregations unable
to afford a Bible of their own.
Evangelist F.A. Akimwale of the Holy Life
Bible Church said, “I will give one to my
Muslim neighbor.” Paul Ekpe, of Victory of
Faith Ministries, said ‘We always need
more Bibles.”
The distribution, along with 100,000
copies given away in March in Onitsha,
Nigeria, is part of an effort by the transla-
tion center to place one million Bibles in
the hands of Africa’s poor. The Richland
Hills Church of Christ oversees WBTC.
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Two leaders active in education and in other
fields of endeavor died in November.
James H. Cone, chairman of the Harding
Universify Board of Trustees for 10 years of a
30-year tenure and a prominent businessman,
died Nov. 24 in Little Rock, Ark “ “
Adron Doran, president for
23 years of Morehead, Ky.,
State University and a state leg- |
islator and minister, died Nov. .
22 in Lexington, Ky.
Cone, 74, was born in
Newburg, Ark A graduate of
Harding University and the
University of Oklahoma, he
Well-known leaders James Cone, Adron Doran die in Novembe]
cation for the Kentucky Department of
Education before his tenure at Morehead
State. During his presidency the school grew
from 700 students to more than 7,000.
Doran served in the Kentucky Legislature
for eight years. He was the recipient of many
honors including the Lincoln Key Award for
his role in the integration of Morehead State,
and the Distinguished Kentuckian award.
A member of the North Lexington congre-
gation, he preached often and wrote extensive-
ly on Restoration history. He was on the sever-
Scott LaMascus
See CONFLICT, Page 4
Amid the Babel
of conflict, what
do you hear?
t is the second time in a
few months that the .
nation’s top story and
our top story have been the
same. We sent Erik
Tryggestad to the Winfield,
Ala., church to attend a
memorial
Inside Story service for
the first
combat
casualty in
Afghan-
istan.
Again, I
spent days
thinking
about
human
suffering.
About Mike
Spann, his parents, his fam-
ily, his wife and his children
in congregations in
Alabama and Virginia. He
was 32.
The story of Spann’s
death has come side-by-
side with a story about
another young American in
Afghanistan, John Walker,
who was captured with
Taliban fighters and was
being held in the prison
where Spann was killed. It
is a complex matter, and we
will not know the whole
story for years.
The media needed only a
nanosecond to begin com-
paring the two young men.
The lives of these two —
one who converted to
Islam and apparently
fought with the Tabban and
the other who aspired to
protect his nation first in
the Marines and later in the
CIA — were the subject of
a Wall Street Journal
editorial in which the writer
praised the patriotism
and responsibility which
made Mike Spann’s world
seem “refreshingly
unenlightened.”
Comparison is a tricky
business. The WSJ seemed
to compare Spann’s world-
view to the apparent eva-
sion and moral confusion of
' the Walker case.
The WSJ wrote, “The dif-
ferent reactions to these
Tut Skoud to
THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 3
JANUARY 2002
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