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MEXICO

For'\
OftSANS

Q "^(SChristi ^

Vol. IT

January. Febmary 1955

HAIL TO THES

A year ago we began haying

so ffluoh trouble with oar mail

not arriylng in Mexico that it

aeemed adyisable to seek some one to care for the funds in

United States* We ask Eileen, Gene's sister, and she yery gladly accepted the task which
small task

was cut out for her. It is no to receive and re

ceipt

all

contributions,

am

well as haye bulletins printed and mail then, take care of a

addition to tills Eileen spends tlae at rallies, conyentions,

ajor portion of State side purchases, and pay State aide bills, and for this work well done we take off our hats* In
SILEEH XlLIwaTOH

and churches in our behalf* In order that you alght know her better we place her here on our front page. Mrs. Ellington llyes with her husband and two boys in Qene*s hooe town, Marshall, Illinois. She is aotlye in her husbands business,
ats well as in the Karshaill Christiaoi Church.
Am) TEE LORD ADDED

We haye seen four aore persons accept Christ and conplete

their primary obedience to Hia since our last bulletin. We are grateful for these and are praying for others who are

today at the threshold of decision.

Interest has been good

through the winter months and there are seyeral new contacts

who are sincerely Interested. Attendance always drops during

the winter because the fBiailies don't have heated homes nor much warm clothing. They stay in bed until late and don't stray far from home. These new contacts have helped in hold ing up attendance and are encouraging to us as we see them
becoming more and aore interested.

CHRISTMAS WITH OUR MBXICAR BRBTHRBH

In spit* of thm faet that wt woro not ablo to apond Chrlstoas with ovr Mtziean Brtthron in body w woro
ablo to bo with thoa in spirit. Bro* Filoaon aupervlsod tho Chrlstaas progrma with Bttoh planning and thought woolca boforo hand* Vhon tho

Tont took plaoo thoro woro about 8o In attendanoo In

Ranohorla Juaros. A thoro la not a alzablo plaeo In town for a aorrloo thoro waa not ao largo a prograa. All tho ohlldron rooolyod glfta and a troat* Bach faally rocolTod a quilt for which thoy woro Indood gratoful*. Thanha to all of you who aado thla poaalblo*

RSLIGION

Tho proTalUng roUglon la Roaan CathoUo, but undor

tho Conatltutlon of I857 tho Church waa aoparatod froa

tho Stato. Tho Conatltutlon of 1917 provided for strict regulation of thla and all othor roUglona. No landod property can bo hold by an oocloalaatlcal body* Since 1917 church property haa been held to belong to the State. All foreign prleata were expelled froa the

country In 1926.

Dlsputea between the govemaent and

the _churche8_srere_aettled_ln July,_1929. In 1932^JAere

waa discord between the atate and the Roaan Catholic Church bocauae of action In the rarloua atatea to limit

the nuaber of prleata and churohea*

Hew Standard Eaoyolopedla Vol. 6

FOOD

TOJEffims
3 T. fat 1 t aalt 2 o flour K c* water

Sift dry Ingredlenta Into alxlng bowl| cut In fat, add

water to aake aoft dough. Roll thin, cut Into calsea 5" in dlaaeter. Bake on lightly greaaed griddle; turn fre quently to brown evenly. Preaa lightly with pancake
tumor to keep cakea flat.
ENCHILADAS

18 tortlllaa
H c fat

Chill Sauce

1 c. chopped onion

1 c. grated chee8e,Salt to taate

Heat tortillas In hot fat until softened; golden brown

In color. Heat the chili sauce. Dip hot tortlllaa In hot chili aauce, rernoTo to plate; aprlnkle with cheeae

and finely chopped onion.

Serve la stacks of three,

topped with 3 tableapoona of Chill Sauce. Page 2

V/ANTSD-- (Support) For three years Danny has

helped Dad and Mother in their efforts to take Christ to Mexico, During this time he has never had any of his living-link pledged. It is our desire that some one or
group adopt might Danny at as this time their mis

sionary that our funds might

be more adequate. Five in

dividuals pledging ten and fifteen dollars per month will support Danny where he

has always said he wanted to,

the
DANNT

boys

and

girls

about Jesus."

FINANCE WISE

Our quarterly financial report will appear in our

next bulletin* It might be well to note here however

that we are still using a bit of red ink. A special gift of $16500 has been given to purchase a house of
worship in Rancheria Juarez.
special gift to help in house of worship.

We are going ahead with

plans to secure this building and pray you may send a

the realization of our first

Most of you know we made a trip back East during the winter months. This trip was profitable both spirit ually and materially. We want to thank all the people with whom we visited and became better acquainted. The pleasant memories of these associations will strengthen us at times when we are lonely and discouragedwe are human and we do get that way once in a while.
We also want to thank Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mc Afee for

the splendid way

packages and mail
be there.

they took care

in

of all

our Christmas

El Paso when we

were not able to

May God bless each of you during t^a new year and may we all glorify His Kingdom with the salvation of many lost souls.

Dear Boys and Girls, It has been a long tiae since we wrote tp yon. We are all fine and onr little bt^her, Steyie, is growing everyday. We want to tell you about a visit we had at a large raneh one day. The raneh buildings were all placed in the shape of a big W with the patio in the aiddle. This is where the owner, the hired help and aninals lived. We played in the patio most of the day, but liked to run around on the hills near by. The most fun we had was when we rode the burxip. Both Kathy and I would olimb on and away we' would go. One day one of the helper's little boys, the same age as Kathy, got sick and Daddy took him to the hospital. He got a little better at first, but then he got worse and died* Daddy helped build him a oasket and they put some of my clothes on him. ^Qien Daddy and his family took him to the cemetery. W^ were sorry, but we know the little boy is with

Jesus now and Baddy says this nay be the way to make it
easier for his Daddy and Mother to leam of Jesus and be His helpers. Last fall we went on a trip with Mother and Daddy and
visited a lot of Christian Friends in the States and we also

spent Christmas at Grandma's house.

<m. .ho h.lp.d

.0 n>ch.

We want to thank every-

m-aloaari.-,

Danny, Eathy,

and Stevle
should

**And they brou^t young children to him, that he

touch them:

them, ^t when ^sus saw it^ he wm much ^spleased^ an^

an4^

di^elp^s jre bu^d those that .brought

said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you. Whosoever shall not receive the king dom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them,

and blessed them.

CHSISTIAV SVANGBLISH IN MEXICO

tfark 10:13-16
Sec. 84.65(e) P. L.&R.
u. 8. posTAae

1107 Plum St.

MABSHALL, ILLINOIS

PAID Maidiall) TlUnftta

Permit No. 26

^'lorence Douglas Flora,

Illinois

MEXICO

For
ORGANS
'.u.

Vol.

IV

MARCH.

APRIL 1955
0 GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD

Pealm 136
We feel much thanks should

be gi7en to the Lord from us here in Chihuahua, and from those of you have made this work possible. First, because the spiritual work is growing stronger every day. Five more
have been since our added to the Lord last bulletin was

written, and several more have expressed the desire to be bap

tised soon.
The Lord has also added to

HOUSE OF WORSHIP

the Christians to worship. the help of Christians everywhere, a good sized

His church in a material way, as He has proveded a place for We were able to purchase, with

building

with several rooms. These rooms can be used for Bible School rooms and will be ideal for DVBS. Also there is a lot of

room in the back for outdoor services and space for children

to play during DVBS time, The church proper is two large rooms with the partition removed, and we feel this will pro
vide sufficient room for some time.

The dedication program

for

the

building was

March 27.

There was

about 60

people in attendance for that service.

Special numbers were given by members. Gene gave a talk about how the Christians in the States had made i t possible for them to have a church building. Bro. Moreno preached a sermon on Solomon and the building of the temple. Baptismal certificates were given to the Christians. The service was concluded with the Lord's Supper and prayer*

let

"The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: him not leave us, nor forsake us: That he may incline

our hearts unto him,..." 1 Kings 8:57i58a.

STOLEN FROM US

LOST FOR CHRIST

STOP THIBF'.l*. But the thief did not stop. With the re pairs that needed to be done to the new building at Rancheria Juarez, the bench-saw was taken out so that door and window frames, plus doors and windows could be made* It had no sooner been taken out than it was found missing* This was a daring venture on the part of the thieves as by the foot prints we could see where one person had stood around wait ing until no one was in sight. The saw was on a bench with the motor and was taken out of our back yard, carried the

length between our house and the neighbors, across their iront yard, and out their front gate. The tracks of a car indicated it was pulled up by their gate and apparently when they lifted the saw up to put it in the car, the leg of the bench dragged the ground. We think It was done by a gang of organized thieves which have terrorized the city recently. Since the saw was taken prowlers have entered the grounds, and it makes i t Impossible to leave the house alone at all
in the evenings.

V/ith the disappearance of the bench saw and the motor, it has made the repairs more expensive, because it has had to be done commercially. There Is much more we wanted to get

done by the way of making benches and pews, communion table,

pulpit, and chairs, but this will have to wait until we can

secure another saw. This was a valuable piece of equipment and we need to replace i t as soon as possible, and we feel
the Lord 7/111 provide. It was dedicated to the ing His kingdom go forward here in Mexico. use of see

CORSSCTION

In our last bulletin in regards to support for Danny, which read, "Flvo individuals pledging ten and fifteen dol

lars per month will support Danny. this should have read "Five individuals pledging $5 per month or two groups pledg
ing 1^10 and S15 par month.

PRAI FOR THBM

Perhaps you have heard of the persecution which the ::edlna*s are having near Cstancia, Zacatecas. They suffered stoning and beating with another Christian and barely escap" ed with their lives. The priest of this locality has offer

ed ^S'fO.OO Aiiierican currency as a reward for his life,

isolated case of where the Catholic Church

v/e

esneclally ask that you pray for them that God may continue to use them to spread His IVord. Some would say this was an
sanctioned the

killing and slaying of those who dare

localities. Thete have been several

to

enter into certain

recently near

cases

Chihuahua where native denominational trorkers have been k i l l

ed under the direction of the priest.

daily vacation bible school

This year we 1 '"'*"0-

plan

to

hold

five neeks of DVBS.

Tno weelcs

will be held in Rancheria Jua-

rez, two weeks in town,and one

j- "

'v. .#1
^
'a

week in a sniall vill<->f<:e northDlos ,(Name of God,} '.Ve are

forward to greet

west of town, called Nombre De

re-

1
i w 1^"' - . ' '-. I

iC^I^ "^-jl

suits during these weeks and

students are planning to come from Colegio Biblico to help
us with the work

ached through this means.

pray many people v/ill be re~

Two

With the expenses of bringing these students to Chihuahua to help us in this needed way, please designate funds to be used for this purpose...DVBS fund. We need your help...will you help us?

DEDICATION DEDICATION DAY DAY

"J

lika to help

Dear Boys and Girls, This will be a short letter, but we wanted to tell you about learning some lessons in honesty.
We learned what i t means to steal when some bad .Tien came and

took Daddy's saw away. We couldn't figure out why anyone would take something that belongs to someone else. Then Daddy and Mother explained that many people who douH know Jesus will steal things from others and tell lies to iiurt someone they don*t like. They told us that these people do not love Jesus or they would not do things li;o that. That is why we are here in Mexico to teach everyone about Jesus, And the best way we can show these people is to live the way Jesus wants us to so they can see that we really do love God, Sometimes it is hard for us to be good like we should, but I think it is hard for the grown-ups too. Then we should nek
God to help us to be better.

'.Ve are all well, I

(Danny; am learning more school every

day. Now that I am learning how to read and write school is more fun, although i t is still hard work. Kathy learns a lot because she sits beside me and already she can count to
10 and knows some of her ARCs. I don't think she will hnve

to ctudy as
now and

hard as
to

I do

to

learn,
us

Stevie can wolU alone

wherever ive pl<y, !'.e

we like

take him with

h&s three new teeth and is starting; to tali; a little. I said this would be a short letter, but i t has turned out pretty lonr o T had better stop for this time.

DYour little missiortnries,

anny Danny, Katiiy and .'Itevle

FINANCIAL REPORT

I'Alnnce on bond, Jaminry 1, 1955

Heneral Kund Defecit

185,28
20,00

Washing Machine Fund

Aid to Mexican Children

5.00

Received in Jan., Feb., March Living-Link

General Fund

6kk,oo 776.17
255.00 $1700.17

Designated Funds

t1514.89
Carried to April Aid to Mexican Children
Total

3.kh

51511 45

Disbursed in first quarter 1955

Living-Link Workers Rent

Passports Special designated gifts
Travel

S 750.00 l8902 8^.73

6.00 30.00 181.00

Church building & repairs (down p'ym't) l80,3^

Postage, Box Sent, & Publicity Aid to Needy

IS. 50
19.37 3.75

Equipment (Church)
Telephone & Telegraph

^.25
70.00 13.15

Washing Machine (designated)

Office Supplies

81550.11 81550.11

March 51 1955 General^ Fund De fecit On hand Special funds

Out standing Bills (Church building)

200.00

Thanks to the many friends who sent boxes for Christmas and the boxes sent since then. Due to the long list we will not acknowledge each here, but if you have not received ac knowledgement for all packages sent before March 15 please
write us about i t . CHRISTIAN EVANGELISM IN MEXICO

1107 Plum

Non-Profit Org.
BULK RATE
U. S. POSTAGE

MARSHALL, ILLINOIS

PAID MarshiiU, Illinois

Permit No. 26

l^orence Dou^Ias

FLoray
Xl^Unois

MEXICO

Jesus
ORGANS

Christ:

VOL. 17

FOITRTH QUARTSR 1955 OUR SEW SON

NOt 4

<P

Again we have '& new member of the family* This time we

did not have to wait months

J'

for this boy to arrive* He is eight years old and in the fir^t grade in Chihuahua* Almost every night be praotioes what he has learned that day
In school* He is the grandscm

of otir first
children was

Christian

lady#

Sometime ago ono of the grand

killed and as we

had
OUR BOY - RITO

wanted to

help this boy,

us to ener

getic, at first when he came to live with us he would hardly

eat enough to keep a canary alive, but now enough to keep him filled up. We hope and pray that the desire to study grow with his years as we feel this is one young people can grow up with the spiritual we can't find
and leam will way that the guidance which

the grandmother wanted take Rlto* He is very

is so needed in their younger years.

So many of the peo|^e

grow up with the traditions of paganism it Is hard to over come some things that are so much a part of their lives.* We

pray for guidance in the bringing i^) of this young boy that our Influence In the Christian life will be a light and
inspiration in his life*
LAST MUTOTE FLASH

Marian has

been sick and is recovering

from a serioos

liver condition contacted In Mexico, It means a lot of modecine and tests as well as weeks of rest before she will be

completely recovered* We ask for your prayers that may be available so speedy recovery may be effected*
-1-

funds

I REMEMBER WHEN ]

b7 Gene

I remember that winter day

to Pratts'
Chevrolet.

of January 30, 1950 when I

went

Garage and

drove out a beautiful new

I remember watching the first few

by one,

h^ondred miles roll up one

I remember the icy day just 21 days and 750 miles latter ii/hen the three of us crawled out of a muddy wreck. I remember when we pulled out of the church yard, the now a little older car heavily loaded pulling a trailer in worse condition,on our first leg to the mission
field.

I remember seeing thousands of miles

roll up as we traveled

speaking on behalf of our mission project. I remember the heavy burden for the car as it faithfully

hauled ^1 our earthly possesions to our first

mission work.

I remember the joy as it took its

first

trip to bring the

message of Christ to the interior along with the loads of toys, candies, and gifts for many Mexican Christians and prospects. I remember the move into the Interior as again our faithful

old Chev.pulled its newly acquired mate (our houao

trailer).
I remember the hundreds of times it has been loaded with as

many as

25 people as we

gathered In the

harvest

unto the Lord.

I remember through this all when the motor began to use oil,
the upholstery began to come in holes, the
springs began to sag.

NOW I SEE a car, veiy faithful in her dedicated roll as servant of the Lord, who has rolled up 100,000

miles, whose front shlmnles, whose motor is shot, whose trcmsmission drags, battered and banged frcn
the very faithful Mexican driver. To me it la like parting with a best friend, but even the best of friends must part and I feel that we can no longer expect that she is safe for the tremendous
tasks set before her. We are looking for a latter model to replace her. There is no bank balance and

we will have to buy by financing. If you would like to help keep a very faithful servant on the field in Mexico could you, your group, or your church help by taking the payments for a month or part? If so will you write telling us which month you would like. If you can help now that would
help to cut to finance. down on the amount that we will havo Mark your contrlbuticm "CAR FUND".
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Two years ago just a few days 'cefjre tho Christmas sea son oiiT yoMngost son, Stertrie^ was born, Tnuch like the way
Jesiis was born to Itery. We
started out from our horae to a

place \Aere the "King" had commanded us, knowing that it was possible for a baby to be bom on the way. However, God was good to us and our baby
son was not born until we

reached our 230 miles

ation.

destin
as

We mark each
KATHT

Christmas

an anniversary when we jour neyed to this land so that the

Scriptures might be fulfilled, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son,and of the Holy Spirit Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have com manded you: and, lo, I aa with you alway, even unto the end of the world." Matt. 28:19,20 Usually Christmas time is a season of the year \then everything is \rfiite with snow.

We long for the whiteness, which to us symbolizes purity and cleanliness of God's love,
"Cone now, and let us reason
together,

STS7IE

saith

the

Lord:

though your sine be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snowj

tho)igh they be red like crim son, they shall be as wool."
Tsa, 1:13. In Mexico there is

very
God's

little

snow

and

very

little else to remind

them of
blood

spiritual

pureness and
His

cleanliness

which

provides. We hope and pray that the spirit of Christian living continues through the entire year for all who have come to
DANNY

know Christ and his lo\'9. -3-

WITH THE ytOBX

During the past year ve have had

vork in Chihuahua* We are

steady growth 1a the

have

thankful for the ones 1^0

come into the fold of our Savior to grov in grace and know ledge, For those vho have come to know Christ and have turn ed aside ve can't help but feel sad and disappointed. Bro. Fllemon and family left this August to return to his hone state, and in his place we have two student preach ers. These students are taking college classes and one is putting his knowledge Into practical experience in Rancherla
Juarez and the other here in town. In this manner the work

in both areas has been expanded. At present we are working on Bible School material* ^cturea fron primary leaflets are cut out and filed accord ing to stories. The story is then written in Spanish by one of our native preachers, and then hectographed. The picture is then pasted on the front of the printed .paper. Our les sons have been dealing with stories of ^Isaac to Joseph and stories on the life of Moses. Flannelgraph lessons are pre pared to be presented with the lesson. The adults as well as the children enjoy these lessons. Since the last bulletin vas printed, there has been nine more baptized, and five more who have made their confession* These will be baptized as soon as they are instructed more about the real meaning of becoming a Christian. We pray that God will continue to bless the work here# Ve feel definate gains have been made in establishing a per manent work and with God's help we pray it will grow steady and strong.
*
* _

We are asking, again, that anyone desiring to send any boxes for the Morgans, to please write for information from our forwarding agent before sending. There Is no way in

which we can take care of pyka^es in SI Paso at present.

cihUSTIAN ev!^ngelism in i-jexico
1107 Plum

Non-Profit Org.
BULK RATE

MARSHALL, ILLINOIS

U. 5. POSTAGE

PAID
Marshall, Illinois
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FORM 33^7 RBi|UESTED

i'lorence Douglas
KLora,
Illinois