As a boy, Paul Goodman had sev eral encounters with the truth of the Gospel of Christ. It was through the testimony of Mr. and Mrs. A1 Sandoz, a business man and his. wife, in Seattle that he came to know Christ as Saviour. Paul, his wife Allene, and their four children, two boys and two girls', all know the Lord as Saviour. “ I was not always interested in Christian service. In fact, I more or less fought it,” Paul declares. “ How ever, when my brother Joe and our good friends, John and Paul Schlener, had been graduated from Biola, and were ready to go out, I felt a strong call of God. This call was not to go to the mission field, but raiher to help support these who were going. I saw that they were giving everything they had with no opportunity of building a future ‘nest egg.’ I wanted to help.” In order to secure a Bible founda tion, Mr. Goodman attended Biola Summer School. Since then, he has launched a program of missionary en deavor. Three trips have been made
multiply my efforts by seeing that a well-prepared message is presented and' then distributed across the land. It would be impossible for one man to be in churches every night of the week in many areas, but a film can do it.” As to the future, several new pic tures are anticipated by Missionary Enterprises, which only recently has taken over Biola Films. Dr. Paul R. Bauman will be featured in a two- section production on t h e seven churches from the book of Revelation with actual pictures on location. An other film on the last days is in prep aration with Dr. Jack MacArthur..Mr. Goodman plans to produce a new film on India and Bombay upon his return from a missionary expedition to the land of Pakistan. While there, he plans to make preparations for the construction of a 60-bed hospital to serve the people of East Pakistan. “ For a 500 mile radius there is no hospital whatsoever to serve these people,” Mr. Goodman points out.
In the background are many of the advertisements of fib produced b y Goodmt Enterprises.
Paul takes an active part in the shooting of his missionary films.
Paul and his son Robert try out motor scooters for the mission field. to various parts of the world: South America; the Holy Land; and the Far East; not to mention Alaska and oth er countries.
“ For this reason it is my personal desire to build this facility. We expect to get started in October, and it will take approximately six months to a year to complete.” The project is un der the auspices of the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism and will be operated by Dr. Viggo V. Olsen. In addition to the building of the hospital, Mr. Goodman has sent to mission fields, motor scooters, modi fied for jungle trails, replacing tedious bicycle travel. This mode of travel will leave the missionaries more re freshed at the end of their treks. Mr. Goodman has also equipped a rugged ambulance which will be a vital part of the missionary program in Pakis tan. continued on next page
One of the most important aspects of Missionary Enterprises is the pro duction of Gospel films which are dis tributed to churches across America. “The first picture we made was en titled, ‘Missionary Call.’ We did it back in 1951. We tried to explain to young people of what the call of God actually consisted.” Since then, Mis sionary Enterprises has made six pic tures, including: “ Port of Two Broth ers;” “ Amazon Mission;” “ Orang Dyak;” and “ The Withered Reed.” “ Our goal is steadily to improve them,” Paul declares. “ I feel that a film is able to do a job which I am not capable of doing personally. I can
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