C. H. Charlton ’17, Supt. of the Pacific Southwest District of the American Sun day School Union, reports 875 professed conversions as a result of the summer’s work. The teachers in the San Bernar dino area had an enrollment of 429 pu pils, 88 of whom made a public confes sion of Christ. These teachers visited 266 homes, thus making contact with adults in many sparsely - settled communities. Biola students and graduates form a large percentage of teachers working un der Mr.- Charlton’s supervision. Now in India is Virginia Nickerson ’46, who will serve the Ramabai Mukti Mission as a nurse on the staff o f the Krishnabai Memorial Hospital. Her co worker is Ruth Bollman, a Moody graduate and laboratory technician. This hospital is in great need of a woman physician as well. An urgent call for prayer has come from Allyn B. Cooke ’18, for Mrs. Cooke, who is critically ill with malaria, appen dicitis and complications. Although un fit for traveling, a fellow missionary, with carriers, endeavored to escort her to Poashan for medical help. At Luku it was decided she was too ill to travel further, and she was left there for a period of rest. Pray for her recovery, and for Mr. Cooke and the two little children who were obliged to remain at home. Matilda Alexander ’42, 3312 Bent Ave., Cheyenne, Wyo., State Director of Child Evangelism, reports a busy summer, with an enrollment of 400 children in 12 classes during the first year’s work. There is great need of a car, of teachers, and homes available for this type of work. Pray for these needs. Phyllis Bapple ’47, writes of the bless ings of the Lord upon her year’s service under the Sudan Interior Mission, at Khartoum, Anglo - Egyptian Sudan. About a year ago, a Syrian girl made a confession of Christ in Phyllis’ Sunday school class. Recently she asked Phyllis how to tell someone how to be saved. Now five of her friends have made a confession of the Lord. A small group of believers have established a small church at Chali - El - Fil — just a baby church and much in need of prayer. The Dinka tribes people are hard to reach, but as there is nothing too hard for God Phyllis entreats earnest prayer for the •various needs of the work there. Herb Tyler, student at Biola in ’34-’35, now Regional Vice-President of Youth for Christ Int’l., 511 Dekum Bldg., Port land 4, Ore., has met a number of Biola Family Circle members in his work. In Alaska he attended the Church of the Open Door in Anchorage pastored by John Gillespie ’40; from there to the Kenai Peninsula where he stayed in the home of Frank and Frances Stradley ’42, who are doing a splendid work among the young people in Seward, and sur rounding territory. At Ninilchik he met Pauline Smith ’29, who has served ten years in Alaska, and Marian Broady- Leman ’45. There are many adversaries and these Biolans ask us to pray for their work in these needy fields.
following service as an army chaplain has been on the staff of the Inter- Varsity Christian Fellowship and is now serving the Southern California-Arizona area. Roy L. McKaughan ’41, and Mrs. McKaughan (Betty O’Dell), are doing a good work in Moline, Kans., where Roy is pastor of the First Baptist Church, serving also the pastorate of the First Baptist Church at Longton, Kans. The Lord is saving souls under their ministry in this new field. They have five children ranging in age from 7 years to 10 months. Edith Menzer-Stokely ’14, Nava jo Gospel Mission, Oraibi, Ariz., reports the closing of the most successful sum mer camp ever known at El Nathan with 157 girls and boys returning to their hogans filled with the Word of God. About 500 Navajos in various districts have heard the gospel message in their own hogans; souls were saved. Mrs. A. P. Uhlinger ’16, Rethy, Irumu, Congo Beige, tells of a surprise visit from Dr. Harry Rimmer, former Biola student, and of the burning of their printshop which has affected the work of the whole field. A primer and some Old Testament portions have been sent to a distant point for printing that they may get this material into circulation. Pray for a new shop, and equipment that they may speed the message to the unsaved. Stencils have been cut for a Kingwana vocabu lary. Mabel Culter, former Superin tendent of Women at Biola, and Ruth Smith ’49, accompanied Rosalie Galle ’47, on her trip to Japan, where all will find a field of service for the Lord. Wedding bells were rung on October 30th, at the Mission C o v e n a n t Church, Everett, Wash., for Gertrude Vandermeer ’46, and John Harold Nidey. They will spend a few months at Williamsburg, Iowa, and then return to Palmer, Alaska, where Gertrude has spent the past year in the Children’s Home. David ’27 and Ruth Dunn-Doerksen ’33, and their four children have arrived in Matadi, Congo Beige, where they will take up active service for the Lord following a number of years spent in the States recovering their health. Robert L. Dell ’46, 12138 E. Carson Blvd., Artesia, Calif., newly elected treasurer of the Biola Alumni Association, has just taken over the pas torate of the Brethren Church at Ar tesia. Wedding bells rang Oct. 6th for Robert L. Goertz and Theron Lea Risley, both of the class of ’49, at the Chapel of the Roses, Pasadena, Calif. They are at home, 4225% Burns Ave., Los Angeles 27. The bride, known as “ Terry,” was a beloved and efficient co-laborer in the editorial department of The King’s Busi ness during Biola student days. Sympathies of Biola Family Circle and faculty to Leonie V. Soubirou ’28, and family, in the sudden death of their mother on November 17th following a heart attack. Services were held from the Second Brethren Church, on Comp ton Ave., and Sixtieth Street. The School of Missionary Medicine quartet supplied the music in the beautiful and comfort ing service.
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“ There they dwelt with the king for his work” (1 Chron. 6:2-3). Dick and Beverly Pegg-Brandt ’33, Box 14, Kano, Nigeria, Br. West Africa, sent a picture of their little eleven-months- old Peggy Anne who loves children but seldom sees white babies (see cut). They write of a man with sleeping sickness who arrived from a distant point at
3 a.m. and frightened the sleeping mis sionaries by announcing his arrival by pounding on their door with a stick. A very feeble old lady suffering from a dreadful abscess, walked many miles to come to the mission station for treat ment. It took her two days to make the journey. Improvement was noted follow ing the first treatment. She showed a deep interest in the daily gospel service held in the dispensary. R. J. and Mrs. Patterson (Helen Lynn), 135 E. Pearl Ave., Redlands, Calif., both of the class of ’28, and their twin daughters, Hope and Joy, have had a profitable series of DVBS and evange listic meetings in Western mountain areas. Scores of families were blessed and refreshed in their spiritual lives. The Patterson family were the first in these places to preach the gospel of sal vation by faith as declared in Ephesians 2:8, 9. Showers of blessings from above brought many urgent requests for the re turn of this family in future tours. Biola Flashes Edmond Erickson ’41, has graduated from Cascade College, and is now direc tor of music and youth work in the Evangelical Free Church at Orland, Calif., and director of Youth for Christ in the Chico area. Melvin J. Friesen ’40,
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