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care of them and their family as they journeyed 20,000 miles from China to the United States. The trip took over five weeks on the waters, with a wait of twelve weeks in India. The Faulkners traveled by truck, jeep, plane? horse-cart, rick-shaw, car, train, and ship, and passed through seven different countries e n route. They may be addressed at “Ridgeview” B o x 88, Soquel, Calif. Alice Foote, ’32j of the Boliv ian Indian Mission, Cochabamba, Bolivia, S. America, sends th e following prayer requests: the health of the workers; th? secur ing of more suitable and per-“ manent quarters for the school for missionary children; the re vision of the New Testament in Quechua. A number of workers have just completed a revision of the Gospel of Luke. Zoa Shaub,- ’28, writes f r o m Comayagua, Honduras, C.’Ameri ca, where there is a small com pany of believers, the fruit of missionary effort. They h a v e gospel services four nights a week besides Sunday school and an open-air children’s meetmg on the Lord’s Day. Herbert (’26) and Mrs. Cassel and their three children arrived in Guatemala City, C e n t r a l America on Dec. 30, by airplane. They were graciously enter tained a day in Mexico City by Biola friends working as Wy- cliffe Bible Translators. At the mission station t h e y w e r e greeted by a number of mission aries and students and had a real homecoming. For additional news pertain ing to the “Biola Family,” turn to page 118. Rejoicing in Him,
Lord will send other workers to this needy harvest field. Ernest (’33) and Mrs. Crabb (Helen Snyder, ’33) are laboring also in that land to the north. They are in Cordova, Alaska, and are burdened for the natives in the far southeastern interior. A r t h u r and Mrs. Bakker (Mary Louise Bushnell, ’40) and infant daughter, Ruth Ann, have arrived on their new f i e l d of labor in Colombia, S. America. The'y are at Cucuta, the same station 'at which Wilfred a n d Mrs. Watson (Elizabeth Lima, ’37) are located. From Jean Mitchell, ’35, i n Karui, Banda Dist., U. P. India, comes this greeting: “I am hav ing the time of my life preach ing the Word of God in the far- off village places. G od has opened many hearts to receive His Word, but others hate us with a bitter hatred. Thieves have plundered and bothered us for many nights, but God h a s kept us here in spite of natural fears. We expect to gather a harvest of souls.” M. Vincent Young of Burma has broken the silence of sev eral years, and has written to us from “somewhere” near India on the Burma frontier. Mr. Young is a missionary under the American Baptist Foreign Mis sion Society. He has been cut off from the outside world, but the Lord has given him peace con cerning the safety of his loved ones and friends. A communication f r o m E. Ruth Elliott, ’27, of the China Inland Mission tells of her teach ing in the Preparatory School in Kelimpong, near Darjeeling India. The school was moved from China to India due to war conditions. With the tremendous inflation and high costs of liv ing, the school’s cook had o v e r $150,000 pass through his hands in one month, while in China. ' Cyril and Mrs. F a u l k n e r (Frances Gray, ’32) are praising the Lord for His miraculous
The field is the world. T h i s month we w a li t to circle the globe with brief greetings from Biola graduates and former stu dents whose' ministry, together, is world-wide. Accelerated educational pro grams in America have resulted in the graduation of many of our “Biola Family” in midwinter. Eugene Crow, B. Th. '41, T om Major, B. Th. ’41, and Wayrre Roberts, B. Th. ’41, recently re ceived their A. B. degrees from the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pa. Cyril Reid was ordained to the gospel ministry ^t the First Bap tist Church of Riverside, Calif., on Jan. 11. He is now attending Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Tex. Richard DeLong, B. Th. ’44, is the director of -the Christian Service Center at 102 S- Monroe St., Tallahassee, Fla. Esther Becker, ’24, wishes she could visit Biola again. She is the head of the music' depart ment of the National Bible In stitute. Previously she taught at the Indiana Central College for eleven years. Pauline Smith, ’29, w h o s e home is in Pomona, Calif., has returned to her missionary work in Ninilchik, Alaska. She is alone on her station. Pray that th e
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