Even one makes the heart rejoice!” The salvation of one soul is worth all the time, energy and money ex pended. Rejoicing reaches into Heaven itself: “Likewise I say unto you,” de clared our Saviour, “there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.” Ruth Zillke of South Africa General Mission testifies joyfully: “ Through the combined testimony of our medi cal staff many men and women hear the Gospel at Catota Memorial Hos pital, Angola, Africa each month.” The Tokyo Bible Center of which Timothy Pietsch is director and founder has a successful radio min istry as well as work along many lines. “The Central Japan Network estimates that we have a listening radio audience of two million,” writes Mr. Pietsch. “ Hundreds write in ask ing the way of salvation and request ing Scripture portions. We have a local church in Tokyo, street meet ings, a large Sunday School, and my wife has 100 children a day in a Bible k i n d e r g a r t e n . We have started churches in two other places and I travel throughout Japan in evangel istic services.” Vince Gizzi, also from Japan, under Oriental Boat Mission reports: “ Two converts from the village outside of Kobe have finished their terms of study in the Japan Christian Theo logical Seminary in Tokyo and are now seeking to r e a c h t h e sm a l l islands of this area and more un reached villages.” Europe is a real mission field. Violet Lopes relates what has been accom plished in Portugal: “ In nine years the Lord has done great things for us in the needy and strategic land of Portugal where I have been laboring under Interna tional Child Evangelism Fellowship. When I arrived, this type of work was unknown but now there are thirty- four Home Bible Classes, as well as teachers’ training classes and prayer meetings in the cities of Porto and ( Continued on N ext Page) Dr. S. H. Sutherland, BIOLA President, talks with Alumni Jack and Sally Haw thorne, missionaries to Bolivia.
lived on a faith basis all these years and the Lord has never failed me. I have done Girls’ work, school teach ing, teacher training, Bible class teaching, evangelistic work on station and in villages and a number of times, with one other worker on the station, handled all the work in volved.” “When I entered the work,” writes Jeanne Grover of Wycliffe in Pem, “my tribe had three schools; now we have 12, with 600 children. We treat malaria, amoeba and a lot of other diseases.” Jean Utterback of Nemoto Gifu Ken, Japan and another girl, laboring under TEAM, opened Heaven House for Japanese children. “ Eleven saved children are the result and a small Japanese church begun,” writes Jean, “ Pray for more workers.” Mr. and Mrs. William Webster state that when they went to Hawaii, there were no other Christians in their area. “Now there is Maili Bible Center, with Sunday School and Church and the groups increase with the population.” Grace Scudder of the C&MA in the P h i l i p p i n e s writes: “ Two pagan tribes have been opened to the Gospel with hundreds converted.” “We had many campaigns during the YFC World Congress,” declares Noble Crawford of Brazil, “with souls accepting Christ. Later in Portugal there were 81 decisions in a single church. . . . Total decisions for 1957 were 255.” Betty Paeth of the Philippines re ports that “ Several simple tribal groups of believers have been organ ized into assemblies with their own chapel services conducted by them and their leaders being trained.” Anita Vance of the Ceylon and India General Mission relates what has occurred in the very difficult Mos lem land of Pakistan: “We opened this area three and one-half years ago. There was no organized work. Now two couples and four men have received Christ and numbers of nominal Christians have come into fulness of life.” Of medical missions there are glow ing reports. Fred Waldock of Baptist Mid-Missions in Assam writes: “ A leprosy colony of tw o h u n d r e d patients has been established includ ing a hospital, a colony school, and 50 converts among lepers!” Cathy Klein of the Sudan Interior Mission says humbly: “ I have been filling in for missionaries who have had to go home. Through the medical service provided I have seen many Christians’ lives spared for the Lord. A few have accepted the Lord because of my testimony or the services held.
Elsie Jean Utterback, missionary with the Evangelical Alliance Mission serving in Gifu Ken, plays the organ for Sunday school meeting. accomplished, particularly in the closed lands behind the Iron Curtain. One of the workers on this station, BIOLA graduate Marjorie Hidalgo gives some a d d i t i o n a l details in regard to this strategic work located right on the equator: “Here are some eighty missionaries, each a small part of the whole body, and we speak of what all of us to gether have been able to accomplish through the power of the Holy Spirit. Many have been saved through the broadcasts and others strengthened in the faith. Here in Ecuador we have tremendous opposition. Dining the year 1957 a 50,000-watt transmitter has been inaugurated so that Aus tralia and New Zealand can be reached like a local station. Teams are sent out to evangelize every part of Ecuador and other Spanish-speak ing countries of the continent. Small, pre-tuned radio sets are placed in strategic areas of this country from which a bountiful harvest has been reaped. In our Bible Institute of the Air there are 10,000 air students studying on a seminary level. We have a 60-bed hospital in Quito and a new one at Shell Mera.” Not only through radio are Bible courses being distributed, but also such agencies as Orient Crusades are serving great areas with the printed Word. The Home Director of this Mis sion furnishes th e f o l l o w i n g in formation: “ Don Hillis is presently field secretary for our Latin American field. The ‘Light of Life’ Bible cor respondence course which Don de veloped in India is now being used in 52 countries and 39 languages of the world.” I n c i d e n t a l l y , Don’s twin brother Dick, directs the work of this Mission from Formosa. Pauline A. Frass of the Belgian Congo modestly tells of her more than thirty years’ service: “My first fifteen years were spent under the Africa Inland Mission; my second fifteen under Unevangelized Tribes Mission; and at present I am independent. I have a small coffee plantation where I do translation work and evangelize among the coffee women and their families. I have M A R C H , 1 9 5 9
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