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What are Young People’s Societies?

Several months ago I was asked to put some ideas concerning Young Peoples Society attendance in writing for the Beacon Lights. The following article shares some of my ideas which should applied to our present ’78-’79 society season and any future society season. One question came up about the age of those attending. For some […]

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My Two Years as Youth Coordinator

What an experience! And what a way to close the term with a Young People’s Convention (35th), in which we helped celebrate the 50th Anniversary of our churches! What a group of young people bent on pushing instructors, leaders, and chaperones to the limit, only to see them sit down with you and discuss things […]

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Our Youth Coordinator Writes…

When asked to write an article for Beacon Lights, I was glad, because it gives an opportunity to say something to our Young People. But the subject of our Young People and an evaluation of them scares me. What does one say about them? Where do you find reference material for such a subject? If […]

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Aggressive Charity

Coming from Holland, Mich., one evening this winter, the roads were very slippery. A friend and I noticed a lady who had very nicely manipulated her Ford into the ditch. At first, I laughed a little and was ready to continue on my merry way home. My buddy said, instead, “Let’s help her out Jim.” […]

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Sunday Driving

As soon as you, our “Beacon Lights” readers, see the title of this article, immediately the thought will come to your mind, “Oh, here’s another sermon on the do’s and don’ts of Sunday driving.” But hold on a little. Read a little further before you decide to close “Beacon Lights” and put it away. There […]

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Looking Back

This month Beacon Lights celebrates an anniversary, its first anniversary. It was one year ago, in the month of February, that our young people’s paper was first published, after a period of dormancy of about six months. Why wasn’t our paper published? You all realize the trouble in our Protestant Reformed Churches. Beacon Lights, too, […]

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