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transferred to Kunming, the terminus of the Burma Road. After Hongkong, Singapore, arid Burma fell, more than twenty of us left Kunming on May 23, 1942, in an American Ferry Com mand transport plane. How our four children enjoyed it all! At Kerachi we learned that a ship was soon leav ing Bombay and that we could take it. We were on this evacuation troop ship more than six weeks, strict black out; 87 out of 100 children had the measles; a ship sunk' just behind us out of Bombay, one 25 minutes ahead of us in the Madagascar Straits, one 30 minutes behind us in the Mosam- bique- Channel, a n d another ‘near- miss’ : between B e r m u d a and New York. Since ,-coming home we have been speaking constantly and praise the Lord for the keen missionary in terest.” Mr. and Mrs. Crapuchettes, may be addressed at 404 South 32nd, Yakima, Wash. ' A t Work with Youth In July, 1941, Bethel France, ’24, re turned from the Philippine Islands after several years of missionary serv ice under the Association of Baptists for World Evangelization, Inc. Since March, 1942, she has been in the of fice of the Child Evangelism Fellow ship, Room 531, 427 West .Fifth St., Los Angeles, Calif. Miss France is re joicing in the blessing of the Lord in the salvation of b o y s a n d g i r l s through the fellowship workers. J. Keith Altig, ’32, was called to the pastorate of the First Brethren Church of Fort Wayne, Ind., in October, 1942. He is also attending Grace Theological Seminary with Mrs. -Altig (Vivian Force). David (’27) and Mrs. Doerksen (Ruth Dunn, ’33), write from Glide, Ore.: “We are still mountain workers. Be sides our Baptist church work, we have the privilege of .teaching Bible in the Glide public schools. The peo ple live in such a scattered area that most of the children have no way of coming to church or Sunday-school. Four busses bring the pupils to the public schools. The Lord Wonderfully opened the door to teach Bible dur ing the regular class periods. My wife is teaching the first four grades by the use of posters. I teach the up per grades and high school. The Lord has already touched hearts.” In August, 1942, Dick (’32) and Mrs. Hillis (Margaret Humphrey, ’32), left the Yakima Valley, where they had been doing young people’s con ference work. Mr. Hillis is how at tending Dallas Theological Seminary. He is also privileged to be one of the conference speakers for the Young Life Campaign, whose purpose is to reach high-school, students fpr Christ. Thousands of high-school youth are [ Continued on Page: 118]
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means of the truck, to go to villages on Sunday with the gospel. What a joy it is to find the chapels packed with people, and afterwards to be able to go to pigmy villages. . . Our hearts were very fuli, when we dis covered the group visited over three years ago, to find how joyous they were as they told of how the Lord had cared for them these years, and how keen they were as they listened to the message from the Lord. They all begged us to come again soon with the Word.” Mr. and Mrs. Wil liams may be addréssed in care of the Africa Inland Mission, Oicha Sta tion, Km. 115, Route-Beni, Irumu, Ituri, Congo Beige, via Mombasa, Kenya, Africa. ■Lois Briggs, ’33, who has been a missionary*in Melut, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, under the Sudan Interior Mis sion; was in Kenya Colony, Africa, for an extended rest, according to word received in October, 1942. After her furlough, Beverly Pegg, ’33, reached Nigeria safely in Octo ber, 1942, where she is working under the Sudan Interior Mission. Nicholas Simponis, ’31, has been helping in the office of the Sudan In terior Mission in Khartoum, Anglo- Egyptian Sudan. In addition, he is carrying on a witness to the Greek community there. Will and Mrs. Allen (Lucile Mgjch) who may be addressed in care of the China Inland Mission, Kwangluchen, via Yaoan, Yunnan,, Free China, left their station in Menghua in May, 1942, as evacuees. At the Burma Road the Lord provided a truck for their trip east. They are réjoicing in the oppor tunities for testimony along the way to road engineers, soldiers, and truck drivers, and in the salvation of sev eral. In October Mr. and Mrs. Allen wrote they were hoping to conduct Bible schools in various places from January through March. Eugene (’29) and Mrs. Crapuchettes (Winifred Kopp, ’28) write of the never-ending source of blessing in His promise: “Lb, I am with you alway,” since their return to the field. “When we left for China in 1938 little did we realize that we were to make a missionary journey around the world! War clouds were gathering iri Europe but we thought all would be settléd far from our sphere of work. From Vancouver we went to Hawaii, then to Japan and on to Shanghai. . . We arrived safely back at our station in P’anhsien, Kwei,-%ind praised the Lord as we saw all He had done while we were gone. Two more happy years were spent there and then we were
Moving in Foreign Fields i After an eventful trip back to the, Congo, Bennett H. (’27) and Mrs. Wil liams are. praising the Lord “for every contact made, for every opportunity granted for witness, and for every kindness shown” en route. In May, 1942, they wrote: “At Oicha we re ceived a royal Welcome by both white and black and were very happy to learn that our journeyings wére over for the present for our appointment was here where work abounds.- But our great joy is in the^spiritual side of the work that we are enabled by His grace to undertake. Especially delighted are we in being able, by
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