Healdsburg and Napa

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1883

Healdsburg and Napa.

In Healdsburg we have found the work required much steady labor since camp-meeting, and have given much of our time to it. In this place we have had the valuable services of Sister White and the college faculty, as well as some of the reliable workers in the church. Much good has been done, but there is need of constant care and watchfulness in this church, where so many are gathering from all parts of the conference. God is blessing the school and church here. Twenty have signed the covenant since we began the tent-meeting here just before camp-meeting. Prof. S. Brownsberger has been elected Elder of the church, and J. Morrison and F. V. Harmon, Deacons.

Christmas Eve we had a meeting at the college, and devoted the time to prayer, singing, reading, and speaking, and after a pleasant and profitable evening, took up a collection of cash gifts for the poor fund amounting to $45.55. How many of our churches are giving to the poor fund? Each church ought to have such a fund, to be kept by the treasurer and used for the poor of that church as they have need.

At Napa we had meetings last Sabbath and first-day. This is one of the oldest churches in the conference, but so many have moved away that it is getting quite small, and not one-half of the present membership are living near enough to attend meetings. Good interest is manifested by the few, and we had a profitable season with them. We go to Vacaville for quarterly meeting and spend the next Sabbath and Sunday after that in Woodland. W. M. HEALEY.