Missions
Ed ited b y Oran II. Smith Chairman, Dept, of Missions, Biola Bible College
Africa
O ut of A frica this month comes a sequel to the story of how 800 American Bible college stu dents scraped together $10,000 to buy a mission boat. The students, all from the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, sent their m oney to the A frica Inland Mission headquarters in Brooklyn. Now , two years later, the boat is fu lly completed and is in full-time use on Lake Victoria in Tangan yika. A Canadian couple, Mr. and Mrs. Don M c
Kenzie (above), run the boat (christened the B iola ) to reach small, isolated villages on otherwise inaccess ible islands. On a recent trip, an old woman who had never heard the gospel before listened politely and then thrust out her wrinkled forearm and said: “ See the signs on me now that life is soon to go. Can it be that there is eternal life for m eT ’ A n answer of assurance could come because 800 students refigured their skimpy budgets and gave $10,000.
Asia For Quemoy : Operation Gospel Invasion by h «^ Un W hile world powers this sum mer were fumbling with the thorny problem of Nation
in the flyleaf of one of the gospels, Quemoy’s chief political officer’s com ment was: “ If the Generalissimo reads the Bible I think all our men should.” And the officer himself did just that and remarked, “ It was good.” This was the first time the soldiers had been permitted to read any literature since Communist propaganda was smuggled from Hong Kong. For the next three weeks we car ried on an intensive gospel campaign on Quemoy. We often spoke to large groups both morning and evening. One night a famous magician was to give a performance. And the men paid more attention to the gospel than to the magician. But our most fruitful ministry was among the sol diers in the prisons and hospitals— they were heartsick and homesick.
One night we showed a film ( “ Dust or Destiny” ) to a group of 3,000 offi cers and enlisted men in an open air theater. But another show was going on at the same time. The main char acters: sentries standing on the flat tops of the houses around us. They were there to check any audience response from the Red Chinese a few miles across the water. That was the first time I had seen a gospel meeting surrounded by armed ushers. After a three-week stay, our mis sion completed, we returned to For mosa. A few weeks later another gospel team headed for Quemoy to reap some of the harvest of our sow ing of the 45,000 gospels. They said the r e s p o n s e was overwhelming. Many are now taking a correspon dence course in the Gospel of John. THE KING'S BUSINESS
a l i s t China’s off-shore islands, a group of alert Christians were totting up the results of a gospel invasion of the key island in the group. The island: tiny Quemoy (pop. 49,485; area 5 mi. sq.). The Christians: rep resentatives of Pocket Testament League of New York. Sometime last fall Madame Chiang Kai-shek was asked by PTL if they could get the gospel through to the island. She gave her o.k. So, with mil itary orders in hand, Andrew Lu and I headed for the island armed with 45,000 gospels. (Time of travel from Formosa: two days and nights across the rough Formosa Straits.) Upon reading Chiang’s testimony 30
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