‘GLORIOUS COUNTRY,’ SAYS UNITED STATES VISITOR TO DOMINION
“Your country is glorious-—it is something from out of-a picture book,” is how Pastor A. W. Peterson, of Washington,. D.C., who visited Greymouth last evening, described New Zealand. For over 12 years Pastor Peterson was world leader of the Seventh-day Adventist youth movement known as the Young People’s Missionary Volunteer Societies.
Sixty-nine years ago there was one such society; it had seven members. Today there are over 8000 such societies. with a combined membership of over 200,000 young people. Members of these societies are. now serving as medical missionaries in over 400 countries and are using 800 languages and dialects. Pastor Peterson recently commenced his duties as youth leader for the Australasian Union Conference of the 1 church, with headquarters in Sydney. This is his first visit to New Zealand. During the past 25 years he has travelled extensively in Africa, North, South, and Central America, and Europe. Pastor Peterson left Greymouth today for Timaru, where he will speak' to an Adventist youth rally this evening.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1948, Page 7
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