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CELEBRATION OF CREATION - PRESENTATIONS

This is the drive from ANDREWS UNIVERSITY’s front gate up toward the campus…it’s really beautiful in the fall - probably other times, as well, but the weather is lovely in October. The gate is just up and across the street from the motel
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so I could easily walk anywhere I needed to be (unless it rained, of course - which is what cost me lunch on Sabbath). The gate was apparently designed by the same guy who did NOTRE DAME’s gate. I don’t know about that, but it’s pretty attractive
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Difficult to get it all in the frame without ‘WAY more blacktop than I wanted, so I focused on some sections - here’s the anchor of the right side
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and the view of the drive through the opening was lovely
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I don’t know what this installation is called, but it announces what is within, and provides a pretty good campus map - there’s even a little parking area for those who wish to stop and figure out where they’re going
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Walking up the oak-lined drive toward the interior of the campus, and passing the first roundabout, we come to PIONEER MEMORIAL CHURCH, where the meetings of the CELEBRATION of CREATION were held.
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Around the back, we could see the uplink equipment that HOPE TV used to broadcast the presentations live to their audience. They also taped everything, and it will be available later on.
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Inside the church, the venue is quite large, and was only filled during the Sabbath services, but attendance was pretty good.
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At the front of the church, the speaker was behind a plastic pulpit, with a computer for the PowerPoint underneath it, and large screens on either side for the benefit of the audience.

Behind the speaker you can see six of the seven panels painted by a local artist for an earlier Celebration - they illustrate the seven days of Creation.
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A wonderful brass quintet - Andrews faculty and students - played special music at a couple of the meetings
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Once the presentations were over on Saturday night, a panel was formed of about half of those who had spoken during the two days, and questions were taken (strictly in writing) from the audience both in the church, and by e-mail from those who watched it on television
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All of this was transmitted live over Hope TV, and there are no plans to rebroadcast it again. However, the footage will be available again, later - just in a different format. Over the next three days, each of the speakers made his/her way down to the HORN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, located between the Andrews campus and the University store and plaza….
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Part of the museum had been rearranged to create a venue for doing 10-minute interviews covering the subject about which we had spoken in our presentation….
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The tape of each presentation will be followed by the tape of the interview with the speaker, so that questions brought up by the talk can be answered. Each speaker will then be the subject of an approximately 30-minute presentation, and the plan is apparently to broadcast these as a series called “YES! Creation”, sometime in the New Year.

I always find doing TV a bit of a pain - the makeup is part of it, but the entire experience is highly artificial
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Here’s what it looked like from where I was sitting…
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Tim asked most of the questions - I have zero sense of what this is going to look like, but the folks who do this stuff are skilled, so maybe I won’t end up looking like too much of a doofus…one can hope!

Next day, I was off to the airport for a grueling trip home—about twelve hours en route, with three separate flights to get to Bend. In Detroit, I had lunch for $10.00 - not bad, and made better because it came with TWO side dishes, and although I ordered zucchini and rice, when it was served I’d been given the rice and a corn/bean salad. The waitress noticed this as she put the plate down, and went straight back and brought me the zucchini, ALSO. Decent, if overpriced, food.
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Just over my right shoulder as I ate, I could keep an eye on the flight line
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We neglect to notice how privileged and blessed we are to live in this time…..flying these days is a pain, what with the TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, the lousy scheduling, the delays, the lack of legroom, paltry snacks, etc. etc. But really!! I was at Andrews University at noon, and by midnight I was home in Bend!! Give thanks.

Next day, things were back to normal, as I got to be with “my girls”
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