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Ethel Brookes, ’28 E. S., Gafsa, Tu nisia, N. Africa, wrote in January that since the occurrences of the last ,few weeks the children have all stopped attending classes. It is reported that she has been serving in the office of the ehapl&in for the soldiers station ed at Gafsa. Floyd and Mrs. Pierson wrote in November from Ango, Uele, Congo Beige, Africa, that during 1942: “We were able to spend some time in each of our outschools, finding that results far outweighed sacrifice in taking time (from station work. In February and July we Jiad conferences which brought outschool folks in here. Since then we have opened some new cen ters and now have eight outstations in operation and one in building. Twenty-five persons were baptized during the year. We now have sixty- nine church members. Daily chapel and Sunday services continue to fill the chapel. Catechumens’, Bible, and adult reading classes, as well as gen eral and women’s prayer meetings art held during the week. . . . We have* been able to maintain kindergarten ■ and women’s school this year with about thirty in each. Counting these, total school enrollment is about one ''hundred forty.” They have fopnd that visual-aid methods are extremely e f fective in presenting the gospel mes sage. Changes in the Homeland Lawrence (’32) and Mrs. Simpson (Helen Hubbard, ’30) expect to return to Guatemala next summer, Mr. Simp son writes: “Our furlough has now been lengthened into about a ' year and a half because of Helen’s health. She has had excellent medical care and the prayers of many friends, and is now greatly improved, for aU of which we praise the Lord. The con sensus of opinion is that there never -has been any other time so opportune for the preaching of the gospel to Latin America. It behooves us to pray as never before.” Their address Is 1619' Champlain Terrace, Los Angeles. Returning from Hawaii, where she and her husband were associated with the Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, Mrs. Cecil C. Martin (Martha Acker man, ’22), is living in Porterville, California, with her eleven-year-old daughter, Kathryn. She may be ad dressed at P. O. Box 826, Porterville, Calif. - George Jackson, ’25, who for the past eight years has been General Secretary of the Orinoco River Mis sion, has resigned his duties, in order to enter defense work. He w ill con tinue as a member of the Home Coun cil of the Mission, and may be ad dressed at 4013 West Avenue 42,vLos Angeles. Clyde and Mrs. Kennedy (Dorothy Goodner, ’35) are coworkers in a gos pel radio broadcast from Station KMTR in Los Angeles. Mrs. Kennedy
plays the pipe organ for the program. They have a “particular ministry to soldiers and will be glad to write per sonal letters to those in the service, whose names are given them. Peter Gunther, ’42, is now attending Wheaton College, Wheaton, 111. At a recent gathering there of Biola stu dents, the following were present: John Hofer, Dale McCully, ’42, Frieda Poppinga, LaVerne Rutschman, ’41, and Erven Thiesen. Letter from Florence Pike It is always encouraging to hear from members of the B. L~ mission ary family whom the Lord has used in fruitful ministry over a long period of years. For twenty-seven years, Florence Pike, ’15, has been one of the Lord’s messengers in China, engaged largely in evangelistic work. Last year,- during a time spent in Hong kong, she was advised to remain there for “ safety.” The missionaries there have since been interned, but she has been enabled to carry on Christian work in the more isolated inland region to which she felt the Lord had called her. At present she is alone, the nearest fellow mission ary being a doctor who is 125 miles away, yet there is joy in what she 'Writes: “ Yesterday I returned from a coun try trip; walked both ways, 60 li each way (20 miles) and find it agrees with me, especially if the weather is not too warm. My heart is full of praise to the Lord for good health and for enough food and clothes. I eat one Western meal a day and one Chinese meal. I still have some flour and powdered milk and one tin of coffee. “ The work here is very encouraging. Sunday-school and young people’s Work are growing, and many are in terested in learning God’s truth dur ing their spare time and ask ques tions regarding the way of life. Many young people around sixteen years of age are investigating the gospel. I wish you could have seen forty or more of these students sitting quietly and listening earnestly to my ex planation; some .said they wanted to be followers of Christ. (
“My new Chinese ‘daughter1 is an orphan arid a great joy to me. She loves the Lord with all her heart and soul and is eager to b r i n g her high-school friends to Christ. She is always bringing some one in to meet me, and I am sure she will win many by her happy and sunny disposition. She has had a hard life for her 18 years but it seems the more she suf fers and is fried, the more her faith shines. She was a very great influ ence foi; good at the normal school in Macao where she attended last year. “My heart is full of joy for what God has done ,for us. Do not sympa thize with me because I am here all alone.” Married Bruce E. Ferry and Minnette Dun lap, Mar. 6, Tucson, Ariz. Beverley W. Hancock and Mrs. Ken neth Morgan (Martha Holloway, ’31), Feb. 20, Miami, Fla. George W. Jones and Barbara May Kelly, Feb. 20, La Crescënta, Calif. Aleck Theodore Olsori and Adina Marie Bergen, ’31, Nov. 25, i942, Mian- go, Nigeria, Africa. Born T o Mr. and Mrs. Don Stump, a son, David Charles, Feb. ■6, Los Angeles, Calif. To Emanuel E. (’37) and Mrs. Ras- m u s s e n (Wilfred Hillyer, ’37), a daughter, Pauline -Loretta, March 2, Strathmore, Calif. With the Lord Mrs. Philip C. Hansori (Ingeborg M. Anderson, ’23) was called into the presence of the Lord on January 31, after a long illness. As a pastor’s wife,, she had had a fruitful ministry in sev eral churches. Besides her husband, she leaves a son, Calvin, who may be addressed at The Richvale Church, Richvale, Calif.
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