"Uttermost Part oi the Earth" Betty (Pearson ’43) and Ed Case ’43 are the Directors of Cuba Child Evan gelism Fellowship and Superintendents for the West Indies. Already Ed has has learned the language sufficiently to teach the children’s lessons. Fourteen children have been led to the Lord be cause of their ministry. Viola (Bogue ’45) and Jim Halbert ’44 with children, David and Denise, are now in Paris studying the French lan guage in readiness for missionary serv ice to Africa under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Stan Norwich ’33 was permitted to visit the remote capital, Katmandu in U. P., India. Only thirty Americans have ever been allowed to visit before and to his knowledge, he is the first missionary ever to go in. The occasion was that Stan had been praying for the Rajah of Poonch. On March 9th, that distin guished figure married the second daugh ter, the Princess of His Majesty the King of Nepal at Katmandu. Stan was invited as one of the guests to accom pany the Rajah of Poonch to take cine films of the ceremony. Mr. Norwick hoped and planned to present a Nepal Bible to the King of Nepal and to give the gospel to others as well. Alice Foote ’32 sailed from the Los Angeles Harbor, April 3, 1950, returning to Bolivia to serve as field treasurer of the Bolivian Indian Mission. Her address is now Cajon 514, Cochabamba, Bolivia, South America. There has been a grow ing antagonism toward the gospel in Bolivia. Recently one Canadian Baptist and eight nationals lost their lives at the hands of a crowd violently opposed to the gospel. There have been threats against the lives of other believers and many of the nationals have suffered much persecution, because of their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Howard Law ’43 will be attending the Seattle Pacific College, in September, 1950, where he plans to get an A.B. which will help materially in his work of teaching at Camp Wycliffe each sum mer and will also prepare him for the work he is doing in Mexico. He has completed the rough' draft of the first twelve chapters of Mark, some old Testament stories, and other smaller selected portions of the New Testament. He has been writing a grammar of the language. Edward E. Taylor ’23 was “ liberated” at Yenkwan,' China, early the morning of August 14, 1949. “We are thankful to the Lord for protection, and are con fident that whatever He sees fit to al low us to pass through He will grant His best for us, as we are committed to Him.” November 3, 1949, he wrote, “ As my station is too near ‘No Man’s Land,’ and the strain there is rather great—I am in Tieshui . . . You realize I cannot write all you might be interested in, nor can I at this time write all that one might. We appreciate all prayer for us and beg earnest prayer to be continued for, not only us, but especially for the Lord’s work and His Church.”
PROMOTION TO HIGHER SERVICE
By Nancy Woolnough ’47 " . . . and ye shall he witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8). "Jerusalem"— At Home A. M. KurkowsJce ’24 is pastor of the Fundamental Church, Santa Rosa, Cali fornia, corner of Cherry and. Orchard Streets. Peter Gunther ’42 is working in the Colportage Dept, of Moody Bible Institute, as assistant to the Director. June Nelson ’49 is working in the office of Back to the Bible broadcast and also keeps busy in Child Evangelism visita tion and church work in Lincoln, Ne braska. Rose Brown ’49 is training to be assistant to the Director of Evan gelical Released Time teaching in Los Angeles. Lucy Radford ’26 is a nurse and the president of a Women’s Service Club which helps over ninety shut-ins during the year at Toronto, Ontario, Canada. "Judea"— Home Missions Gordon and Loraine Titus ’46 serve the American Sunday School Union • in the Mount Shasta District, California. Lookout is a small community in south west Modoc County where they have la bored for two years and where there has been little co-operation on the part of the inhabitants. As a result, the Union planned to close that field. This fact stirred the people to action and now a Sunday School has been started in Lookout. W. R. and Hazel Hunrichs ’22 work among the Portuguese in California in the organization known as Grace Bible Groups. A little army tent is the onlv church building at Volta. Here the peo ple are poor and steeped in false doc trine. It often takes much visitation and explanation before they are willing to accept the Lord for salvation. Lawrence and Meta (Schroeder ’39) Powell find their mission field to be among the people in Saint Helens, Ken tucky. Recently the Powells came into possession; of a small portable power plant. This has provided them the op portunity of showing slides and also of being able to have electricity for eve
Eleanor D. Fairchild '48
Eleanor D. Fairchild served during the recent war with the WACS. After the war, she enrolled in and graduated from the Bible Institute of Los Angeles in June, 1948. All during her school days, she was known to be an energetic stu dent and servant of the Lord. In August, 1948, she went to Naples, Italy, as a mis sionary. Her first work was connected with Casa Materna—an orphanage with 300 children in the day school. Then in addition to caring for the children, she became secretary for Youth for Christ in Naples. Finally the secretarial work took up all of her time and it was there, the last of March, 1950, that she became ill. By the middle of April it was known that Eleanor was seriously ill and should be flown to the states. A doctor and nurse were secured to accompany her, but before the plane ever took oif in Rome, Eleanor, just thirty-two years old, had risen to a higher elevation and had gone to be with the Lord. Word was received in Los Angeles, April 24, 1950, that she had succumbed to aplastic anemia. Her death came after one and a half years’ service as the only Biola missionary in Italy. The funeral was held at the Church of the Open Door, Wednesday, May 3, 1950, Youth for Christ taking charge. The Palermo brothers of Italy, spoke of her work there; Dawson Trotman, the last to see her in Naplds, paid tribute; Mr. McKeon read the Scriptures and presented a brief history of her life, and Dr. McGee gave the message. Six Youth for Christ directors were pall bearers. Eleanor was interred in the Military Cemetery, San Diego, Calif. In her last letter to the Alumni office Eleanor wrote, “ I’d like to sit in on a dinner, listen to people . . . talk to people . . . and just be with old Bl-ers for awhile.” Now she joins Paul Uhling- er ’42, George Kevorkian ’39, Herb Bruce ’43, Al Kliewer ’44 and Arrie Rouintree ’34. All of these graduates were in full-time Christian home and foreign missionary service, and all but one were under the age of 35 years when they died. The Lord has taken to Himself all of these young missionaries within the last two years. Page Nineteen
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