Called By God
Elder William G. Johnsson, editor of the Adventist Review, preached at the rededication of the sanctuary. Concerning that event he wrote that the mood was one of“ Thanksgiving, rejoicing, wonder, a sense of being part of a miracle.” 5
In Hyveth’ s autobiography, Will I Ever Learn? 6 she writes frankly about life prior to her conversion; she experienced struggles common to many converts. She was baptized a Seventh-day Adventist in 1979. As she studied at Columbia Union College( and her son, Stephen, at Takoma Academy), Hyveth believed she was called to the ministry. She served as a student ministerial intern at Pennsylvania Avenue SDA Church and graduated from CUC in 1985.
Hyveth was one of seven women and 450 men who began classes in the fall of 1985 at the SDA Theological Seminary in Michigan. She was accepted at the seminary provisionally, without any conference sponsorship. She wondered whether she would receive a call to ministry.
Hyveth did receive a call to serve on the staff of the large Sligo SDA Church in Takoma Park, Maryland, as coordinator for evangelism, with alternating time to attend seminary. From Sligo Hyveth was called to the Boston Temple and then the Campus Hill Church, as indicated above.
Another book from Hyveth has recently been published, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount. 7
1 The distribution includes 73 pastors, 47 Bible instructors, 43 chaplains in medical institutions, 11 pastors’ wives serving as associates, 39 graduate students, 26 Bible teachers, theology professors, campus chaplains, and others.
2 For more information about these around-the-world workers, see copies of Mosaic from the General Conference Department of Women’ s Ministries.
3 You may learn of other SDA women ministers by looking in the current Seventh-day Adventist Church Yearbook.
4 Time for Equality in Adventist Ministry( TEAM). 5 William G. Johnsson, " Born to Grow," Adventist Review( 22 March 1990): 4.
6 Hyveth Willliams, Will I Ever Learn?( Hagerstown, Maryland: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1996).
7 Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount( Hagerstown, Maryland: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 2004).
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