The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 52, No. 1, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1995 Page: 1 of 31
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AN INTERNATIONAL'NEWSPAPER FOR MEMBERS OF CHURCHES OF CHRIST / VOLUME 52 / NO. 1 / JANUARY 1995
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Two Pepperdine graduate schools suffer from fire
r T"t he Pepperdine University Schoo) ot Business and Management and the Graduate School of Education and
1 Psychology, housed in a leased facility in Irvine, Calif, were dislocated by fire Oct 29 Eire officials
JL said tfx? fire started about 10 p m on the first floor of the two story building when a pile of rags used to stain
woodwork irrbuildmg renovations spontaneously combusted
The two schools were housed in a 40.000 square foot complex in an Irvine commencal district About 85
percent of the u shaped facility s north side was burned through the floor to the ground, according to
Orange County Calif authonties Pepperdine classes were rescheduled at area hotels for the more than 1,200
students who attend the facility .
Pepperdine officials say insurance should cover losses and additional expenses caused by the fire They expect
the students to be displaced for the remainder of the semester A portion of the building containing the
library computer lab counseling center and other facilities only suffered smoke damage and use of those areas
was restored shortly after the fire
Death claims Charles Coil
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Charles Coil, founding president and
chancellor of International Bible Col-
lege, died at his home Dec. 1 after a
lengthy illness. He was 64.
Coil was bora
in Flint, Michigan,
Dec. 11,1929, and
grew up on a farm
near Salem, Arie.
He was bap-
tized in 1948 by
LeRoy Miller.
He received his
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was incarcerated, and asked for his address. She then
sent him a package of all of the lessons from the World
> Bible School series, and a Bible.
> Immediately, Dahmer completed the lessons and
sent them back to Mott, with a letter expressing his
interest in baptism.
At the same time Mott was corresponding with-
k Dahmer, Curtis Booth, a Crescent, Okla., prison
|| minister, also sent several WBS lessons to Dahmer
and a Bible. Dahmer wrote to Booth as well, asking
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Members, ministers reach out to serial
killer Jeffrey Dahmer during his last days
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erial killer Jeffrey Dahmer died in a Wisconsin prison Nov. 28,
after a violent beating in a prison gymnasium bathroom.
Before Dahmer’s death he had contact with several church mem-
bers and was baptized May 10 in a whirlpool in the Columbia Cor-
rectional Institution, Portage, Wis., near Madison.
Dahmer’s journey to the cross began after an Alexandria, Va., church
member, Mary Mott, saw him on a television show last spring in which
he discussed needing “peace” in his life, according to a report in The
Daily Oklahoman.
Mott called the warden of the prison where Dahmer '
Mott called the warden of the prison where Dahmer
DAHMER
| for assistance in finding someone to baptize him. Booth said.
In his letter to Booth, which was partially reprinted in the OGtatoman,
Dahmer asked, "Would you be willing to find someone to help baptize
me? I’ve taken all the other steps.**
Booth contacted Rob McRay, a preacher in Milwaukee, Wis., to find
out if he could arrange Dahmer’s baptism. However, McRay was leaving
the next day for a conference, so he called Roy Ratcliff, a friend who he
says “knows the gospel of grace** and is a minister in Madison.
At first Ratcliff was reluctant to see Dahmer, said Mack Lyon, a min-
ister of the Edmond, Okla., church and speaker on the television pro-
gram, “In Search of the Lord's Way."-
See DAHMER, Page 11
Houston flood: A typical couple’s story
teve stood in the middle of what had gone. The handmade dresser made by Terri’s
been his living room. He was in a daze uncle — gone. How could this happen? Why
kJ — the shock of ruin and destruction did this happen? These were but a few of the
was overwhelming. The flood had risen so questions running through Steve’s mind,
suddenly. Then they arrived. They just sort of
Steve and his wife, Terri, had rushed to showed up. Young and old, they were there
save as much as they could. They had ------,,, n ------
brought landscaping timbers into the kitchen, ------BELATED PHOTOS, page 3--
placed them across the kitchen from counter — members of his church family, there with
to counter, and stacked a bed spring on them, shop-vacs, strong backs and willing arms, to
They then put as much on that as they could, help haul out and clean up.
There was, however, not enough time. His
paintings and drawings — gone. Their new
entertainment center — gone. His child’s
bed, which had been his bed as a child —
The work went slowly at times, as Steve
and Terri tried to decide what to keep and
what to discard. Their remaining furniture
See FLOOD, Page 4
Bulgarian police close church in Sofia, charging it is an illegal sect
SONABMMMM in Sofia, the church was not registered. It nationwide transmission."
•w-w 7 hen worshippers arrived at the could not be registered, because the govem-
\A/meeting place of the Sofia, Bui- mem has been refuting official registry to
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and • battery of reporters and cameramen
were there.
Police officers asked for the church’s reg-
This was followed by three articles in the
newspapers the next day. The articles
garia, church Nov. 18, the police churches. And so a vicious cycle is in place: repotted that police had prevented an illegal
No registration, no legal churches, no church church from meeting. They gave Black’s
meetings. name and stated that he was registered there
“We appeared on the television news that for butinese rather than religious purposes,
istration papers. When these documents wore night. Black added. “The media has boon “Ths truth is,” explained Black, “that you
not forthcoming, they wore informed that the retiring much for the last year and a half cannot come into the country for’religious
---- -—-(j tlnrefore Clooed. about ‘sects ’ In this report, however, they purposes. ’so that has been our only option.”
by Tom Black, missionary referred to us as a ‘church.’ ... k was a Boo BULGARIA, Page 11
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