Gospel for Greece
H ere ’ s a
Land that is
Spiritually
Hungry
Hy N icholas Simponis
T he land of Greece has an ancient and brilliant record in the arts and sciences but the greatness of Greece has all but become a misty memory. In, recent years Greece has fallen in rapid succession under the oppres sion of Mussolini and Hitler and Communist uprisings. After these man-made inroads came a series of devastating earthquakes. But out of the ruin there is a new Greece rising today. And helping to build the new Greece is a core of evangelical Chris tians. Estimated at 10,000 strong, the evangelicals are a small minority in a land of seven million but their in fluence is being strongly felt. In America, the American Mission to the Greeks, 156 5th Ave., New York, is doing much to aid the evan gelicals of this land. There is a great need for medical work among tuber culosis and leprosy patients. There is need for educational facilities and for evangelical literature. The people have long been denied the Scriptures in the vernacular and this is perhaps the greatest need at present. About the Author: Nicholas Simponis was bom in southern Greece in 1898. He came to America in 1911, served in the army, later came to California and found Christ at the | Lincoln Avenue Presbyterian Church in Pasadena. In 1931 he gradu ated from the Bible Institute of Los 'An geles and went as a missionary to Ethiopia under the Sudan Interior Mission. In 1949 he returned to Greece to labor among the people he loves and understands so well. THE KING'S BUSINESS
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