Edward Arensen, B.Th. ’40, Mwanza, Box 125, T.T.E. Africa, sent the follow ing short note to the Family Circle. “ In 1940 I was leader of the Student Mis sionary Union gospel team. At the pres ent time all six of the members of that team are on the foreign field: Lucille Falconer-Webster, C h in a , under the C.I.M.; Beulah Jorgensen-Olson, Africa, under Mid-Missions ;Nadine Simons-Gil- lespie, Alaska, Alaska ■Evangelization Society; Virgil Hook, Tibet, under C.I.M.; Lubin Jantzen, India, under the Mennonite Board, and under the A.I.M. Through the years we have kept in formed of each other by means of the round robin letter. At present this letter crosses three continents to reach our scattered team members.” Inland Africa, bimonthly publication of the Africa Inland Mission, announces the arrival in New Orleans of B. L. J. Litchmann, ’17, from the Congo. Ben nett H. Williams ’27 and family, also from the Congo, have arrived in New Zealand, where they will spend the first part of their furlough. For the present these may be reached through A.I.M. Headquarters, 373 Carlton Ave., Brook lyn 5, New York. Dr. Edgar B. Luther ’16, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Albany, Ore., finds himself deprived of his morning broadcast through the shift in network programs .due to the summer daylight saving time. Dr. Luther and his congre gation are praying that some plan may be worked out that he may resume his r e g u la r gospel broadcast. Besse M. Nurminger, R.N., Aptdo 2975, Mexico, D.F., Mexico relates an interest ing incident illustrating the value of the Missionary Aviation Fellowship so re cently inaugurated in Mexico. Besse re ceived a call to attend a very sick baby living on the far side of a mountain. How to make the visit was a real problem until MAF learned of the call, and Jim Lomheim volunteered as pilot for the emergency trip. Upon the plane’s arrival, it was found the mother was also des perately ill with a temperature of 106°. Besse discovered she did not have the medicine required for the mother; Jim flew back to the clinic armed with a list of needed remedies. Five hours from the time of her first arrival Besse discovered that the patient’s temperature had dropped five degrees! She says: “ How I thank God for MAF . . . How could we be here in the jungle if it were not for these planes?” New Missionary Recruits To Allyn B. ’18 and Mrs. Cooke, a son, John Freeman, April 14th, at Tali, Yunnan, China. • To Herbert W. ’26, ’27, and Doris Myers-Cassel, a son, Den nis Edward, June 14th at Jalapa, Guate mala, C. A. o To Dick and Margaret Humphrey-Hillis, both of the class of ’32, a daughter, Jennifer Lynn, July 6th, at 1531 Sinza Rd., Shanghai, China. T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
asleep, snugly wrapped in early morn ing darkness! About 1:30 p.m. I awak ened with a start . . . my ears popping told me we were losing altitude . . . out of the window there lay China . . . everywhere I looked was China. God wonderfully opened the way for meetings in Fu Tan University! In four nights 200 definitely accepted Christ as Sav ior . . . various meetings in. Peking where more than 90 responded. God’s Spirit was'in our midst.” She had strange adventures with the Word of God in Shanghai, Canton, Hong Kong and other places where souls were saved, and a final landing at 11 Mission Row, Cal cutta, where she is with her brother, Hubert Mitchell, and his family. Gertrude Varidermeer ’46, may be ad dressed at Box 1773, Palmer, Alaska, where she is working with 32 children in the Lazy Mountain Children’s Home. Palmer is in the interior of Alaska and about 50 miles from Anchorage. The Home has its own church services and Sunday School, and are praising the Lord for a number who recently made a definite stand for the Lord. Gertrude says: “ It is wonderful to be in the service of the Lord . . . I am extremely happy and contented here.” Turner ’41 and Helen Blount, 302 S. Auburn Ave., Farmington, N. M., are rejoicing in the blessing of God upon their work, and especially upon that in connection with their contacts with the Navajo Indians who now have the Gos pels of John and Mark in their own lan guage. Alta Gorman ’40, is a registered nurse, and also a Navajo who knows her own language; she has a fine grasp of the Bible and has proven herself to be a valuable worker with the Wycliffe Translators. Miners and their families are eager for the Word; the classes aver aged 65 adults in daily attendance, be sides many children. C. Virgil Hook ’40 closes a stirring chapter in The Lifted Light, the latest book published by the China Inland Mis sion, and written by their own mission aries, by asking prayer for Ah-ga dra- ja, an eighty-one-year-old Tibetan no mad. “How these tent-dwellers need the light! The black tent flaps are open to the Light-bearers, who, as yet, are tragically few. A great field is open. There are mountains . . . we can cross them in prayer; cross them by faith to bring the light to people who sit in a darkness that can be felt.” Dorothy Vial ’ 47, has suffered a broken leg which will interfere with her immediate plan of taking up work with the Wycliffe Bible Translators. Her father is also indisposed to the extent of needing a little vacation on the desert, I This family will appreciate your prayers. Mary Hunter ’28, daughter of be loved Biola Faculty member John H. Hunter, has been serving the Lord in Africa for a number of years. The Drum Call, official quarterly publication of the West Africa Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., is edited by our own Mary, who is located at Elat, Ebolowa, West Africa.
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“Lo, the days come . . . that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel . . . and I will cause them to re turn to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it” (Jer. 30:3). Tordis ' Christoffersen ’29, may be reached by personal letters at Chez Mille Reynes, St. Peray, Ardeche, France. Gifts and packages of food or clothing should be sent to the American Euro pean Fellowship, Rev. Charles Cline, 168 William St., New York 7, New York, who will see that they are safely for warded to the proper destination. Tordis was born the first time in Denmark, and grew up under the shadow of the Free Church, and born the second time during the early years of the first World War in a Danish chapel in Berlin. She writes: “Never shall I cease to praise God for the great days and years spent in your blessed country, the wealth of Biblical knowledge that I acquired at Hephzibah House and Biola . . . We who were in France during the occupation, lived in fear and trembling, steadfastly looking for the Americans to come over and deliver us . . . then one day the glad tidings sounded ‘They have come!’ When the first American jeep passed through the village, I was called upon to bid them welcome and thank them in the name of our community. Since then American mothers have often written me to plant flowers on the graves of their sons . . . on a hill called Calvary outside of Paris three crosses have been erected in memory of the four thousand young Frenchmen of the resistance movement, who were murdered in less than two days . . . Every open door is a great privilege . . . ‘Men ought always to pray, and not to faint.’ ” From the heart of old India, Jean Mitchell, ’35, writes: “When I left the airport at Los Angeles, Nov. 27th, it was as though I was borne away on an gels’ wings. Before I knew it, I was over the old Pacific, with a big, soft full moon hanging almost where I could touch it . . : When I changed planes in Hono lulu the next morning, I noticed that the plane’s name was Lightfoot. I couldn’t help but smile, for both my heart and my feet felt so light . . . Sunday, the 30th, found us in Tokyo, a-city sound Page Sixteen
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