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Alice Foote ’32, Arrle E. Rouintree ’34, and Jack and Sally Hawthorne, all working under the Bolivian Indian Mission, write of the Lord’s gracious dealings with them, and of the many open doors for service. One Bible class mentioned, has almost doubled in attendance, and a number of the members are showing real interest in the things of the Lord. Twenty girls are attending one Sunday School class, regularly. To God be all the praise! Leona Thoering ’20, writes from Bengal, India, of her experience in being evacuated from Chungking, China. She was one among six adults and twenty-five c h i l d r e n loaded aboard an American army truck in the city of Chungking. They were driven to an airfield where, upon boarding the plane, all were strapped into metal seats. Huge piles of lug gage filled the aisles of the plane. They were obliged to fly without lights, and so solicitous was on e.pf the crew-members for their safety and comfort during the trip, that he l^ft the control room about every fifteen minutes to see if all was well with the -passengers. A few days later, these evacuees learned that the Lord had, wonderfully delivered them from imminent peril. Ricardo and Mrs. Wagner (Laura Larson ’26, P.G. ’28) are carrying^ heavy responsibility as they labor in Almafuerte, Argentina. Daily they atfe meeting the discouragements due jto irregular, attendance at school by the native children, and shortages of suit able housing, and gasoline for travel to keep up the work in the surround ing territory. Their three small chil dren are learning English in the classes Laura is teaching, and are not much interested in it, either, think ing it is just a queer notion of their mother’s. Recently, they have been showing a little more interest as /a result of some story books in English which have fallen into their hands. Laura is also teaching music, and has a mid-week Bible class on the day devoted to religious instruction in the public schools. With Daily Vacation Bible Schools held in sev eral districts, and summer camps, one for children and another for adults, one can readily see the need for more workers. Please pray that this need may soon be supplied.
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son ” (Psa. 145:15). Don ’28, and Mrs. Fairley write from their station in French Equatorial Af rica of the joys and sorrows in con nection with their work among the Pigmy tribes. At a recent Easter gath ering, more than nine native tribes were represented. Don is sorely in need of. a change of climate, and he and his wife are looking forward with joyous anticipation to the time when they can be reunited with the three older children in this country from "whom they have been separated for nearly five year's^ Prayer is asked that every need shall be met in con nection with their furlough. Edwin Knapp ’39, serving the Lord in Venezuela under the Orinoco River Mission, is rejoicing in the way the Holy Spirit is bringing to him illus trations and words to help him present the Gospel to the needy tribes among whom he is working. These people have long been in darkness and super stition. - While Ed’s language study is not completed, and his vocabulary is limited, he has recently been privi leged to baptize nine people, and knows of quite a number of others who are almost persuaded to become Christians. Let us pray that the Lord will send more missionaries to that field, for it is “white already to har vest” (John 4:34). Adolph J. ’43, and Mrs. Liden are happy in their ministry at the Bethel Community Church, Rosewood at Tweedy Ave., Southgate, Calif. Adolph is the pastor of the church. Mrs. Li den, who sang for over five years with the Old Fashioned Revival Hour, as sists with the music of the church. Adolph feels they have found there a wide door of opportunity, and covets prayer for the furtherance of the Gos pel in that place. Chester Englund ’39, is visiting with old friends at Biola after more than three years’ service in the ground di vision of the Army Air Forces in Eng land. Chester, is wearing the insignia of honorable discharge, and is hoping to find employment in the Los An geles area.
Mary Morrow ’35, haspfust closed a happy vacation'period with her fam ily in Seattle, and with friends in Bellingham, Wash., and Los Angeles. Mary is praising the Lord for the new work to which she has been called in connection with the Nathaneal Chil dren’s Home conducted by the Scrip ture Memory Mountain Mission, and located at Emmalena, Ky. This is a home for orphan and half-orphan children, and Mary, recognizing that there will be much work and many problems, says: “Pray for us, that our hearts will be molded and fitted as we enter this new work, so that the children shall see trie Lord Jesus Christ in us.” Eldon, ’38, and Mrs. Johnson (Opal Sherrier ’37) write from Challapata, Bolivia of their joy in hearing some of their converts preach and give earnest testimonies to the crowds who attended the annual Huari fair. More recently they have attended a mission ary conference at Cochabamba where the problem of introducing an'indige nous work was discussed. It is their plan to oversee the Indian converts, and to help them to make their min istry a self-sustaining and self-propa gating one. David ’27, and Mrs. Doerksen (Ruth Dunn ’33) are now living in Haw thorne, Calif. David is working as Chaplain’s assistant at the Los An geles General Hospital, ministering to those connected with independent and community churches, and to those who have no church connection. Sun days are open for pulpit supplying. Newton A. and Mrs. Kapp (Doris Blackwell ’31) write of a little Biola reunion held in the Sudan Interior Mission headquarters in New York. Present were Abe ’31, and Mrs. Kroeker (Mary Neufeld ’30), Jacob ’31, and Mrs. Eitzen, Joseph ’32, and Mrs. Beckett and their son, Robert Clinton, Nicholas Simponis, and Newton and Mrs. Kapp. All these are anxiously awaiting the day of sailing back to work among the peoples with whom the Lord has called.them to labor. , •
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