Says Eldon Johnson of the Bolivian Indian Mission: “W e received inval uable training which prepared us to direct our own Bible Institute” ; Mrs. Sydney Best of Far Eastern Gospel Crusade of Japan writes: “ BIOLA gave me a sound doctrinal founda tion; also my missionary responsibil ity was deeply impressed upon my heart and has remained throughout the years.” Catherine Klein of the S. I. M. Leprosarium in Nigeria ex presses her gratitude for “ BIOLA training which laid the firm founda tion upon which to base my faith and grow. When problems and tempta tions come, I know the answer is to be found in God’s Word.” Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Lawrence of the C. B. F. M. S. in Belgian Congo declare that at BIOLA they were “ taught co-opera tion, working on teams and with groups” and that there too they “ learned to love the quiet hour, and to know God: the most important thing on the mission field.” Special skills prepared for special service: “ In the radio department,” writes David Crane, “ I received valu able experience in engineering and programming, preparing me for the task of construction engineer in erect ing a missionary radio station W TW in Vieques, Puerto Rico, as well as maintaining the radio equipment as special engineer.” Fred and Dorothy Waldock, Baptist Mid-Missions, A s s am , I n d i a , list
aries in and out of these areas, carry ing supplies, getting the field leaders around and surveying for new mis sion station sites and locations of tribes and countless other tasks. Mis- ionary travel in the vast South Sudan has been largely transformed and for this we praise God, for it is His doing.” Further details in regard to what has been accomplished in the evan gelistic, educational and m e d i c a l fields will be given in a later article, and the needs of the fields will be presented by the missionaries them selves. “Go ye into all the world!” and have we gone? Are we unruffled Knowing that the dawn in heathen lands means hut a day begun? Another day without the blessed Son of righteousness and peace, Another day when souls who have forever lost the way, Sink deeper in the dark morass of sin, hopeless and lost, At last to enter into an eternal night? Oh God of love, In tender pity from Thy throne above, beholding them and willing That not one should ever perish. Thou dids’t send Thy Son Who Bought them with His blood, but to us Thou dids’t entrust The glorious and wondrous news. Into our weak hands dids’t place The torch to lighten heathen lands. Strengthen our arms, dear Lord, To hold it high. Oh, ransomed of the Lord, If you and I fail in this thing, “Their blood,” l hear Him say, “Will I require of you at that day.” “Go ye into all the world." “Is it a task to do for Me this one last thing,” I ask? —Martha Snell Nicholson “A Workman that Needeth Not to be Ashamed." (2 Tim. 2:15). Now that our former students are in position correctly to appraise the training received at BIOLA, they were asked how th e .years spent in school had prepared them for mis sionary service. We have space for only a few of these enlightening re plies. Nancy Woolnough, HCJB, enthu siastically exclaims: “ In every way!” and Mrs. Belva Overmiller of the Sudan Interior Mission Says warmly: “All the different means of opening God’s Word to one’s heart, not only blessed and enriched, but gave a vision of the power of God to trans form lives as well.” Naturally, the understanding of the Bible takes precedence over all other advantages gained at BIOLA.
As is well known, publication work of all kinds is flourishing, from the fine, informative, attractive maga zines of the mission societies to field bulletins and ambitious; periodicals, such as the African Challenge, the monthly published in Africa by the Sudan Interior Mission. Rev. John J. Bergen, Circulation Manager, vividly describes this enterprise, which differs
First evangelical church in Atepec, Oaxaca — native leadership of Zapoteco Indian believers — translators of Wycliffe — Mr. and Mrs. Neil Nellis. somewhat from magazine promotion in America: “ The government asked us to leave Northern Nigeria . . . and we moved 700 miles south to ‘Mary Slessor’ country. Traveling over dripping, dense jungle trails and narrow roads, we introduced the African Challenge to literally thousands of new readers. Though much of this region has had Christianity for many years, yet com paratively few real hom-again Chris tians are to be found. These second and third generations are reading the good news of salvation in the interest ing pages of the publication. Its con sistent, straight-forward presentation of real Christianity in an attractive format is bringing new faith and new life to many. Each month 125,000 are making their influence felt among thousands.” Of the aviation service Mrs. Stuart Sendall King writes: “Missionary Aviation Fellowship began in the isolated swamp provinces in Sudan in January 1950. During the rains there was terrible isolation which was endured by many missionaries and their families. Access to some stations was almost impossible except with tremendous hardship for six to eight months every year — sometimes longer. Now, through the Lord’s gra cious hand, t h i n g s a r e different. There are eighteen mission station airstrips in the area, reaching almost every station. Our M. A. F. planes fly day after day through the whole year, covering some 150,000 miles a year on emergency flights, taking mission
Ruth Uhlinger— Belgian Congo. many advantages: “ BIOLA gave good Bible training, living and working with other Christians; missionary medical useful for leprosy colony, family and villagers’ health.” J. P. Kliever, of the Brethren For eign Missionary Society, laboring in French Equatorial Africa, says gener ously: “BIOLA was a storehouse of training, continually proving practi cal in every phase of missionary en deavor — serving me as a pastor, preacher, t e a c h e r , medical helper, music, social, personal evangelism, p u b l i c evangelism and translation work.”
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