B iola to teach out-going missionaries, or home missionaries, to read, to write, and to teach braille. In one semester the class taught by Marilyn Cole, enables the student to read and to use the “ braille writer.” Practice work consists of making Precious Promise cards, small booklets bearing a gospel testimony and explaining the meaning of the Christian life. In other words, while learning to do this work the students are producing something of benefit. Ruth Gamboa took the course and is now serving as a part-time mission ary for the Christian Fellowship for the Blind preparing various types of Christian literature. Dolores Majores, an education major, also working for the Christian Fellowship for the Blind, operates the press which puts out hundreds of pages of Christian literature. Audrey Liggett took the braille course for one semester and is now a volunteer worker brailling ' Dr. Louis T. Talbot’s booklets that the blind might read. There are 300,000 blind in the United States, 2,500 of whom are servicemen blinded in World War II. These men are taught braille by the United States government. Roy Zuck, another of the students taking the course, has corresponded with these blind servicemen by means of braille and soundscriber. In this way he has been able to bear a Chris tian testimony. Some of the work done by the stu dents goes to a blind woman in Oak land, Calif., whose church buys the paper for her that she might make duplicate copies and distribute them in the East Oakland Center for the Blind. Two blind evangelists are also re ceiving the work done by the stu dents. The blind can distribute the literature, but we must provide it for them. It is of interest to note that Mrs. Gordon Hooker’s J unior K ing ’ s B usi ness stories are brailled for the use of a blind evangelist in his children’s meetings. Mission societies are eager to have a missionary who can read and write braille since there is little time to learn it on the field. The 68,000 blind in Nigeria are an example of the need for this ministry in foreign lands. Braille is phonetic and can be adapted to any language. The Mohammedans, Thesophists, and Christian Scientists are going all out to get their literature into the braille for the blind. So far as we know the Bible Institute of Los An geles is the only school in the coun try that teaches this skill to out-going missionaries.
MtSS/OiMgy SYMPOSIUM What are the opportunities for a young missionary family to go to com pletely unreached tribes? How much education does one need to be a missionary?
“ Depending on the field, Bible Institute, College and Seminary training is not absolutely neces sary, but college work is becoming more and more essential. Some times because of age it is not ad visable to take graduate work, however, the CBFMS is taking candidates up to 32 years of age so that they might finish their training.” £Z«,m Pelletier Conservative Baptist Foreign Mis sionary Society “ In our field high school and Bible Institute training is required for regular missionaries. For teachers, a certificate is needed and one year’s work in Belgium. Every nurse and doctor must study six months in Belgium.” George Van DuSen Africa Inland Mission “ High school and three years of Bible School plus eleven weeks of training in linguistics. College and graduate work is recom mended in some cases, but it is not essentjal. Each missionary candi date’s case is evaluated, and no set standard is followed except the minimum requirement of Bible school and linguistics.” Harry Owen W ycliffe Bible Translators A missionary volunteer wants to go where the need is greatest. How con be know where the need is greatest? “ He should listen to missionary speakers and pray for God’s guid ance to lead him to the place of greatest need. As he hears of the needy fields the Holy Spirit will lead him to the particular place of best usefulness.” Mrs. George Van Dusen Africa Inland Mission “ Every field has a great need; some fields do not have as large ,a population as others, but the field of greatest need for you will be the place where God leads you, wheth er it be to the Hualatai Indians with a population of 600 or to In dia with its population of mil- ^ 0ns' Mrs. Lois Murdock Hualatai Indian Reservation Kingman, Arizona
“ Single men or married couples are usually always the ones sent to unreached tribes in preference to a young missionary couple with children.”
Mrs. Clarence Preedy China Inland Mission
“ In most cases a couple with children will not be sent out to unreached tribes, at least, until the husband has gone ahead to estab lish a home. There is too great a danger of sickness for the entire family. A single man is best suit ed to go to unreached tribes or a young unmarried woman. A mar ried couple with no children might be called upon to do pioneer work, but not if a single man is avail able. If a young couple with chil dren are p o s itiv e the Lord has called them to an unreached tribe they should f o l l o w the Lord’s guidance in this matter.” Ed Beatty Chtist for Indonesia Fellowship “A young m is s ion a ry family could go to the outskirts of a semi- civilized tribe and the husband could make contact, but it would be better for a single person to reach these people. It would not be wise to endanger the lives of your children in going to an un reached tribe when a single person could do a better job.” Eldon Johnson Bolivian Indian Mission How is it possible to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature? “ If every Christian would do his part it would be physically pos sible for every person in the world to be Reached.” Mrs. Duane Owings Sudan Interior Mission Obedience to the call by every Christian would make it easy to preach the gospel to every crea ture. In fact every person would have heard the gospel by now if all the Christians had been obed ient to the call.” Mrs. Gertrude Bell Central American Mission
MAY 1953
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