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-THE GOLDEN GOSPEL FOR THE GOLDEN RAND!'

MALAWI IS OPEN
The big news for us just now is of Malawi. I want to share with you the content of a letter received February iSth from the office of the President of Malawi. "I am pleased to inform you that following the meeting on 5th January 1972, held inMr. Walker^s office, His Excellency the President has now approved your application to establish a branch of the Christian Church mission here in Malawi. You may now proceed with arrangements to estab
lish the Church here. lency's approval The District Commissioner of MuI anje has been informed of His Excel

After ten months of praying and working, approval has been given. We rejoice that the Lord saw fit to allow us to have a small part in opening the door of evangelism to this previously "closed" country. Praise the Lord, you were a part of it too with your prayers
and financial help for the work here.

Another development of the work since our last newsletter is the starting of Sunday services for the Europeans atCarltonvi Ile.

After meeting with them on Friday for so long we met the 30th of January for Sunday
services, and
these peoplel

18 were present.

Pray for

4 families have come from

Roman Catholicism, one from Spiritualism,

and they really need your prayers. One family has enrolled in the correspondence courses offered byOzark Bible College and
plan to prepare themselves to be used in

full-time service. Prayforthem. He has 22 years on the mine underground and this
is no smaII
for God.

decision to leave andcut

loose

There is not a iot of family news.

Since our last newsletter all of us

except Sharran attended summer camp. Again we enjoyed it very much. Wanda helped in the kitchen and taught a class of senior girls. Tommy and Shelba were campers and I was "dorm dad" for 6 junior boys. Sharran spent her vaca
tion working in the mission hospital at Mashoko, Rhodesia.
on nursinq and cot a first-hand view of what it is all

She is real keen

IMI let her

about.

"During my school vacation I spent two and on-half weeks working at Mashoko Christian Hospital in Rhodesia. I had an opportunity to be in
"During my school vacation I spent two and one-half weeks working at Mashoko Christian Hospital in Rhodesia. I had an opportunity to be In on

everything.

I helped deliver three or four babies and goT to watch every

One day a lady came in
She had left it

operation that was performed at the hospital during my time there.

"Some of the most peculiar things happened.

after having been bitten by a puff adder on

the ankle.

so long that the lower portion of the leg and the foot was rotted and gan- fcVmK

humor In it.

grene had set in. The smelTwas so bad the doctor could not stand it and had the nursing students put a plastic bag over therotted part so he could stand to amputate the leg 6" below the knee. Even the poor lady found

e]
into
the fire, was burned

"A not-quite-so-funny case was Isaac. Isaac is about 6 years old. He fell into a fire and every time he tried to get out he just fell farther

In time the grandmother pulled him from the fire.

to a crisp. The doctor amputated the

The whole ieft side of his body

the shoulder.

left arm just below

A cast was put on

then the

his left leg to hold it straight.

This must be

done till he has stopped growing ,

tendons can be operated on to permanently straighten the leg.

"I found the native life to be poor and very simple, yet they seemtoalways have a smile on their faces. I thoroughly enjoyed my holiday and would I ike to spend more of my spare time
do ing it all aga in."

By the time you receive this we will have started our third year here. There have been frustrations, tears, and heartbreak. There have been victories, rejoicing, andblessings al so. We Just pray the results on the "credit" side will be lasting and the defeats finally turned into victories. Praise God for Malawi. By all means pray for the Floyd Starmi family as they prepare to go there to carry on that work. Pray for us as we stay on here and carry

on the work among the Europeans and Malawians here.

God bI ess al i of you.

God loves you and we do too, Thomas P, "Pete" Jones & Fami ly

"The

Boss"

MISSION FINANCES SINCE LAST NEWSLETTER Nov. 1971 Dec. 1971

Jan.

1972 I

Bal.
Tota I

Nov.

^76.21
259.84 -336.05 300.00

Bal . Dec. I
Dec. expenses
Total
Credit

$-36.05
209.06
-245.11
300.00

BaI. Jan.
Tota I Cred i t

$ 54.89
457.28

Nov. expenses
Cred i t

Jan. expenses

-402.39 300.00

Bal Nov. 30

5-36.05

Bal . Dec, 31

$ 54.89

BaI, Jan. 31

$-102.39

The Jan. 5 trip to meet with Mr. Walker necessitated that we fly and the cost of that trip to

Malawi ($244.09) makes Jan. expenses hJghpr tbanosu-a

7he, Ghoi/icA

AT HOME AND ABROAD

Let's be Faithful in Our

Missionary Commitments.
So Send I You" John 20:21

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'THE GOLDEN GOSPEL FOR THE GOLDEN RAND!'

Greetings in Christ Jesus! This newslet ter is somewhat overdue, but we really have been on the go. The Bi II Hal I family arrived here from Atlanta, Georgia, the
20th of June and we met them at the air

port. They stayed with usunti I the 14th of JuIy. They are now I i ving in an apart ment in Alberton, a JoBurg suburb. I thought we would take you with .us on a typical Sundayvia the newslettergiv ing you some idea of how a Sunday goes. It's a bit hectic, so hang on & let's go.

It's 6:30 a.m. and time to get up and get the day started. Our services at Nigel start at 9:00 .m.--SCLwe jnust get movi ng.. My first job is to get to the kitchen and turn on the oven and iight the oil stove
ly when they arise. As the family gets up & I get the hymna1s and the communion equipment into the Combi. At about 7:30 breakfast is ready, With that out of the way the finishing touches of getting ready are done. Shoes polished, teeth brushed, hair combed - and if we hurry we leave the house by 8:30-8:40. The drive to Nigel takes about fifteen minutes, and while Tommy and Shelba get the communion box and song books in Sharran prepares for the music and Wanda fixes the communion. The electric stoves are turned on and by 9:00 we are ready to start the song service. After the song service and communion the children go to their classes while the adults have the preaching service. Since we have to be at Craighali Park, 48 miles away, for an II:00 a.m. serv i ce we must be d i sm i ssed as near 10:00 a.m. as poss ibIe. There is little time for visiting and as soon as the last "amen" is said, the children get the hymnals rounded up, Wanda prepares the communion box for travel, and off we go, usually by 5 to 10 minutes past 10:00. By pushing the Combi for -all it's worth, we arrive at Craighall Park by 11:00 to 11:15. They have already had Sunday School from 10:00 to 11:00, so after the song service and communion I have the second sermon of the morning. The service Is usually over by just after 12:00 and after a meal with one of the families in the church we hurry on to Car ItonviI Ie, a town 50 miles to the west. A service for Malawi mine boys is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. at the mine compound and this consists of a rousing song service, anywhere from one to three sermons, a trip to the lake for a baptizing and back to the compound. During this mine service Wanda and the children stay with one of the European families because the mine frowns on women being in the compound. After the mine service I then jo in the fami ly for supper, usually with the family where they have stayed during the mine service. After supper we go to the Scout Hall where we have a European service, which starts at 7:00 p.m. By 8:30 we are ready to start back home, a distance F of 97 miles. If we don't have too much traffic we can be home by 11:00 p.m. For the day we have preached 4 times and driven almost 300 miles. In the Combi that's enough miles. We arrive home tired, at times discouraged because ones we depended on did not show up, rejoicing at other times for the victories and growth seen.
so it won't be so cold for the rest

of the

famI

dressed for the day Wanda gets

breakfast wh ile

In addition to the Sunday services at Carltonville, we also have Friday Bible study. I usually leave home around noon and arrive at Carltonville in time to do some calling among the Europeans. Then about 4:00 when the mine boys come from underground, I meet with them
for a while. We will have a song service, prayer service, or just discuss the work & make plans for Sunday. From the mine we go to one of the homes where the Bible study is held & begin at 7:30. These sessions are never over before 9:00-p.m. and sometimes go on quite

late, depending on the questions and discussion. been as late as 3:00 a.m.).

We arrive back home by midnight. (It has

Perhaps this will give you some idea of how the weekends go with us. Bible studies at Nigel on Wednesday evenings.

We also have regular

I have said before, but want to remind you againIf you have questions about any of this workWRITE AND ASK. We try to write all who write us. One of my poorest classes in col lege was 'Wind Reading" and I have not improved much since in that field, so WRITE if you
want information or just chat for that matter.

We have received no word from Malawi on living permits. Bro. Stamm was refused entry and we have applied. As the situation now stands, we
are permitted to enter temporarily (30 days) & the church is granted permission to carry on its work, but the missionary just can^t "live in" and help with the work. We are making plans

for another trip soon, probably will fly with another missionary who has a Piper "Cherokee". We can go much cheaper th i s way than f Iy ing com mercially, The road condit1ons acrossMosambique have not improved and the Communist terror

ists are increasing activity, so driving isnU very appealing. Our last trip was fay military convoy and at 5 different points the noise of the convoy was dotted with automatic weapons

fire.

We had 4 solSiers on our

vehicle

with

This one hit

land mine on road across

automatic weapons.

It promotes faith & prayer.

Mosamblque,

The second half of the school year started the 18th of July and the children were not too

keen on going back.

Tommy has a new teacher, his third one this year.

of May, Sharran, Shelba, and Wanda ^lave birth days coming up. Sharran will be 17 on Aug. 4, She Iba wiI I be 10 on Aug, 2, & Wanda will have

He was II the 2nd

a birthday in July.
to put it).

{That*s

the way she said

I wish there were some way we could make all of you understand just how much we do appreciate your prayers, letters, and financial support. It^s less than 18 months until planned furlough time and at that time we perhaps can greet you In person and share the work with you. Until
then these newsletters wi 11 have to suffice. Do

continue to pray with and for us.

every one of you.

God

bless
She Iba

Tommy

Place your trust in God & He will do you noth

ing but good.

Sincerely, Bro. "Pete" & Family

Bro. "Pete" & Chief Makhole ready for preaching trip to nearby village.

"Happiness is,..giving & receiving

the word of God."
Makhole.

Bro. Stamm & Chief

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'THE GOLDEN GOSPEL FOR THE GOLDEN RAND!'

After much consideration, we have dem mi

cided to return to the

states early in

'' ^

we had previously planned to return in

January of 1974. Due to the schooling

December of this year. I know this will come as a surprise to some of you, for

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for the children and the present situa-

tion of the work here,^ we feel it best

here and another family

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There are now six families on the field

is due to ar-

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rive early in 1973 according to latest information. We know we

at Caritonville

due to shortage of workers. The church

now has a fulltime man

leave now without having the work suffer

has a preacher,

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said, we feel we can leave now without having a gap in the picture.

Our plans upon return are indefinite. We hope to get the children into school for the term beginning in January. This way Saharrn can graduate this coming June, and Tommy and Shelba will not lose out by getting into classes at the wrong time. We will be reporting to supporting churches as schedules can be arranged. Churches wanting speaking dates

should correspond

directly with us here

(Box 803, Springs, TVL. South Africa) until the

15th of November, and then send all mail to Antioch Christian Church, 4040 E. Maple Ave., Odessa, Texas 79760, until further notice. Just as soon as we know where we will be liv ing, we will get out another newsletter for a change of address. We plan to spend Christ
mas with our parents at Lamar, Missouri, and get settled somewhere after that. One week from today 1 will fly to Malawi to see the officials of government and try to get something definite on getting missionaries into that country. The church has govern ment recognition and is making good progress under the leadership of the native evange lists. By all means be in prayer concerning that work. Tommy will go with me this time and is looking forward to the week in the bush.
We spent most of last week at the natives in this country. Barberton attending the 50th conference on the work among Though we are not primarily associated with the African

work, it is good to meet with the other missionaries and to enjoy the fellowship. One always comes from such meetings with the "spiritual battery" charged. Because this was the 50th anniversary of the work here. Brother Max Ward Randall of Lincoln Christian Col lege was special speaker and we enjoyed getting to know him. Brother Randall had worked some years ago here and brought pertinent messages for the work and workers today. Wanda
led one session for the women.

Remember, write directly to us here in South Africa before- November 15, then to Antioch Christian Church, 4040 E. Maple Ave., Odessa, Texas 79760. Do keep us in your prayers. God gless all of you there.