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the other members of the family have arrived and may he reached at 424 N. Craig St., Pasadena. Margaret has brought home some most beautiful lambskin paint ings done in such color as only the Latin- American knows how to apply. She is anxious to display them to interested groups, and to sell them to help in the travel-expense incurred by this, their first furlough. Florence Hardy, ’27, Faithful Florence, Oriental Boat Mission, P.O. Box ldO, Hong Kong, offers six notes of praise to God for His wonderful provision for the needs of her work, also items of rejoicing as she finds the work is making progress. Im agine traveling to your group-meetings and classes in water-way streets, women with children on their backs paddling along with tail-oars, offering transporta tion for small coins to those wishing to visit other boats, swishing close beside and almost side-swiping other craft sim ilarly propelled, with traveling salesmen (employing the same means of travel), shouting their various wares and im ploring inspection and purchase of such items as fresh water, sold for small coins at so-much-per gallon, peanut oil, candy, fruits, vegetables and what-have-you, even to one boat carrying a family of chickens, another with pigeons! Florence has oppor tunity in numberless cases of speaking to them about their eternal welfare, hand ing tracts, and at times a little Bible reading or message from the Word of God. Some listen—others glare and spurn even as the people in the homeland. This is a thumbnail sketch of the waterways of the work in the Orient. Hold the ropes in prayer for Florence, Faithful Florence, veteran missionary among the boat people. George //., T8, and Gladys Gibson-Ek- dahl, T9, spent the opening days of their furlough with their daughters at 3980 S.E. Francis St., Portland 2, Ore. They will soon open their regular deputation work coming down the coast to Los Angeles, where they will appear on the Annual Missionary program of the Church of the Open Door. They have some Kodachrome pictures, and one 16 mm. sound film, col ored, “Miracles in Inca Land,” which are available where there is a sound projector. Openings for speaking will he appreciated by these missionary veterans. Helena B. Wiebe, ’52, a secretary for the U.S. Air Force on the Island of Okinawa, is also an ambassador for Christ in a needy field. Helena writes, “ Poverty, dirt, disease and sin abound among the 600 thousand nationals, a people who have never had an opportunity to know the Lord Jesus Christ. Officially working here for the Air Force, but actually a mission ary . . . Like Paul, Helena is self-sup porting, working among a people whose minds are spiritually darkened. Like all
missionaries serving in the dark corners of the earth,Helena pleads for prayer-sup- port. W. Cameron Townsend, general direc tor of the Wycliffe Bible Translators, pre sents a vivid picture of the work as he returns from a three-months tour of in spection. Most of this time was spent in Mexico and he notes the spirit of revival among the workers there. He is happy to have had the joyful experience of par ticipating in the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Robinson Bible Institute at Panjachel where more than a thousand delegates from towns' and villages met in a large tent. The Lord brought blessing in reviving the director’s knowledge of the language after an absence of more than 20 years, so that he could bring them a message. Look to the Lord for adequate provision for the needs of the work in Colombia and Brazil. Elsie Jean Utterback, ' 47, Heaven House, 1352 Karuizawa, Nagano Ken, Japan, presents special needs for prayer, and states their local volcano Asama, has been blowing off steam and ash daily for a couple of months. Her appeal is closed with Psalm 20:7, “ Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.” Briefettes Don C. and Helen Mitchell-Smith, for mer student, are now connected with the Far East Broadcasting Co., Box 2041, Manilla, P. I. They have a year-old baby, Marsha Lynn. Jim and Viola Bogue-Hal bert, ’44, David, Denise and Donna are furloughing at the home of their parents in Lynwood, Calif., P.O. Box 10. Goldie Gonnsen, ’50, is now promotional secre tary at Fuller Theological Seminary and also working in several capacities at Im manuel Baptist Church in Pasadena, busy and happy in her service for the Lord. Sympathies to Mrs. Ralph Scoville (Helen Small, T9) in the passing of her mother in her sleep, Jan. 21, 1954. October 31 was a great day for the Richard High towers in Mwanza Sta., Tanganyika, for a fine young man came to their home. They took him into the family at once and named him Roderick James. Another boy came to the home of James Meyer, Talbot Seminary student, and his wife, formerly June Warner, ’52, last Novem ber. They made him a member of their family circle and bestowed upon him the name of James Alfred, Jr. Art Houk, ’52, has resigned from his Baptist Church in Clarkston, Wash., to accept a call to pastor the Bible Baptist Church, 204 E. South St., Morrison, 111. Mrs. Houk was known to us as Shirley Chambers, ’47. Irene Schlenker-Howard, ’32, husband Arthur Melvin, and two-year-old daughter are hack from the Bay District, living at 3922 Filion St., Los Angeles. A pretty picture is Irene with sweet little Jeri in her arms.
“M y voice shalt thou hear in the morn ing, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up” (Psa. 5:3). The Collards, Howard and Beth ’44, Glen and Dean, are back at Aptdo. 141, Navajoe, Son., Mex., after a furlough in the States. They declare it is good to be hack again to hear blind Julia pray in Mayo, and to hear that when Piedad’s husband died last year, she refused to have anything to do with pagan Mayo customs, but stood firm in her Christian faith. The operation on Glen’s foot was successful, and he is much improved. They have been able to do some translation work in the hook of Acts, though Santiago (their interpreter) has been in ill health much of the time. Special prayer is asked for five people, including several others, who are on the verge of deciding to be come Christians. Timothy ’33, and Helen Pietsch, 179 Miyamae Cho, Meguro Ku, Tokyo, with a broadcast covering an area of 25 million people, ask earnest prayer that the broad cast may be enlarged to meet the peoples of all Japan. They are on three stations at the present time and fear the oppor tunity may not last much longer. You can help in prayer. Paul and Helen Miller, working under the Ass’n. of Baptists for World Evangel ism, 1304 Schaff Bld’g., Philadelphia 2, Pa., say— “ The Lord has cared for us in a most tender way. W e had no means of transportation when we arrived in the States from India, and no money to buy anything, but without any slight sug gestion from us, our Mission arranged to rent a car . . . Traveling expenses were thus greatly lightened for us (four chil dren included— -Arnold, Grace and twins Vernon and Sharon — 16 months old).” The Lord provided every need and brought them safely through to Seattle. On arrival they had no place to live but friends provided a little home of six rooms at a nominal rental charge. Let us praise God that He never forgets His own, and pray for the Millers who will soon he on their way hack to India. Francisco and Margaret Smith-Tapia, ’23, and their family are now on their first furlough since going to their field in Bolivia following graduation from B iola . Margaret was called home by tele gram announcing the serious illness of her mother last November. Since that time
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