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“I have seen the plans for Biola for the next few years, and feel led to quote Isaiah 58:12.” Items of Interest George C. Van Dusen ’20, a pioneer missionary in Africa, and now one of the Field Directors of the Africa In land Mission, finds time to serve as a member of the International Council of the Child Evangelism Fellowship. He is using opportunities to establish bush chapel-schools where one or two of their mission trained converts carry on a witness principally to the boys and girls. He reports that there are about 1500 of these schools in which thousands of African boys and girls are being reached with the Gospel message. Vivian Wubbens ’44, ?s now S l / c in a Naval Air Station Dispensary. She writes: “The Navy is great because the |Lord has made it so. Each day is an adventure with Him. His goodness floors me and why I should get the breaks, we cannot explain except to mark it up as the faithfulness of the Lord. My real joy is in the teaching of a crippled children’s class . . . I am hoping to teach some outdoor classes under the Child Evangelism Fellow ship.” Walter A. Lepp ’39, pastor-director of the Family Altar Broadcast emanating from the Grace Brethren Church of Hagerstown, Md., writes of God’s bless ing upon this new work to which he has recently been called. Mr. Lepp states: “ I shall always praise God for Biola, and its influence upon my life and ministry.” In his letter to Mr. Hale, he refers to Helen White ’20: “I hope she is still there, for Biola would not seem the same without her being in your office.” Kenneth _B. Pridham ’32, has been overseas with the Army Air Forces for twenty-eight months, and has been promoted to the rank of sergeant. His citation states that his mechanical re pair and maintenance work on the hundreds of ¡transport planes landed at the air depot at Cairo, Egypt, was worthy of high commendation. Frank T. ’33, and Mrs. Lee arrived home on furlough, July 26, from Ni geria where they have been serving the Lord as missionaries under the Sudan Interior Mission.
Psalms 121:5-—"T h e Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand ”
town. Mrs.' Huntington testifies that she has received great profit in spir itual things from the radio broadcasts which have been conducted through the years by Dr. Talbot, and from the latter’s books. She declares that it is her desire to attend the Summer School in 1946, and she believes that several friends in her home church will enroll with her. The Lord has led this mother of five through many trials. This has brought her to tes tify to His faithfulness, and to the sufficiency of His grace. Hugh P. Andrews gives his testi mony: “Shortly after my conversion in China, in 1913, I felt a call to the Gospel ministry. Through the wise counsel of my ‘mother-in-the-Lord’ and her family, I came to the Bible Institute in 1918, taking a short pre paratory course before marrying and launching out into full-time service as a singing evangelist. Since that happy time it has been my privilege to serve as singer, or preacher, or both, in about one hundred and fifty evan gelistic campaigns. “When this war started 1made every effort, to get into the armed forces as chaplain, but was blocked in that, and so I entered the War Department as a civilian in 1941. In 1942 I enlisted and was assigned to the Air Corps divi sion. This was my fifth period of service in the Army and Navy, as I had served in the Philippine cam paign in 1920, in the Boxer uprising in 1912, and two enlistments in World War I. I was discharged from the present service in 1944. After my dis appointment in not becoming a chap lain, it seemed that as a minister I was ‘through,’ but the Lord kept after me until a couple of months ago I yielded to His will and announced my willingness- to ‘go’ and ‘preach.’ So now you have my story as to why I came back to Biola after all these years to brush the cobwebs off my mind, and to refresh my spirit under the teaching of your faculty and with the fellowship of Christian students.
Summer School Notes The Biola Summer School session exceeded expectations in point of stu dent enrollment, and in enthusiasm as to the value of the courses offered. One hundred and sixty-eight people found Biola offered a rest for the body, and a feast for the soul, and many are planning to return next summer to spend another profitable six weeks’ vacation period. Numerous and va ried have been the tokens of God’s leadership in the lives of these stu dents. We mention a few of them: Eugene Mocy enrolled as a student in Biola in 1940. At the close of his first semester he left to take up Gov ernment work in Vallejo and San Francisco. During these intervening years he has kept in mind the thought of returning to the Institute to com plete the work here, as a preparation for the ministry to which he has been called. Eugene’s application has been filed, and he has been accepted as a student for the fall semester. Lloyd Purser ’36, is the busy pastor of the First Baptist Church at Brawley, Calif. With a hunger in his heart for a deeper study of the Word through the courses offered in the Biola. Sum mer School, hé. found a way to con tinue his ministry in the church and to satisfy the longing in his heart by taking the Biola “refresher” course. He drove to Brawley each of the six week ends to preach to his congrega tion; a long,' tiring trip. Lloyd and his. wife have two little children—Ju dith Lynn, born Feb. 28, 1942, and Jeffrey Lloyd, born April 2, 1945. Mrs. Viola Huntington it an enthu siastic endorser of the Summer School in that it has fulfilled her life long ambition to have training in the work of the Lord that she might be more useful in her home church. At present Mrs. Huntington is supervisor of the elementary school cafeteria in Buttonwillow, Calif., and is busy in making her life count for the Lord in the Community Baptist Church of that
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