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THE NMS LETTER OF MR. AND MRS JERRY HALL (MISSIONARY RECRUITS TO
PUBLISHED BY THE CEWTRiJ. CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF AMARILLO, TEX./xS.

THE

COUNTRY OF BRAZIL) JUNE 29,1966

ABOUT THIS Na;S LETTER This news letter "Halls for Christ in Brazil"

is being printed and distributed by the Cen tral Christian Church of Amarillo, Texas as a service to our Lord, whom we know will do great things through Jerry and Becky Hall.
We will continue to do this service until

the Halls have secured a permnent forward ing agent.

Editor's Note:

If you have not

My, are we ever travel wornl We have been in twenty churches within the last two months. The majority of these churches have
been in Iowa, You hear much of southern

yet had the opportunity To

hear Brother Jwrry Hall preach God's word, by all means, secure his services soon! Here is a man who is on fire for the Lord,
and who will not allow those fires to burn

hospitality, but these yankees know the meaning of the word also. We first tasted

out. I am pursuaded that Jerry will be a useful tool of God for the purpose of sav ing many souls in Brazil*
I urge you to invest your interest, your

this hospitality in Brooklyn, Iowa my 1960 Comet, which had 95,000 miles
clunked its last clunk. Brother

There on it
Darrall

pray^rd. aiid >our monuv in his work.

Dyer, a deacon in the Madison Church of Christ, as well as a Ford dealer in Brooklyn helped me out of my dilemma, I was a stranger, and he took me in by selling me a 1964 Ford. Yfe feel that this car was a

IISO'C)- iBAX)-olW> (minister-Central Christian)

Godsend, and we thank our heavenly Father for Christian business men, who are willing to sacrifice their own profit for the fur
therance of His Kingdom.

fq^^pUGGESTION
"The Spirit of Man is the Candle of the Lord" Proverbs 20:27
The Candle of Constant Concern

iklgiONARY

The Lord gave us a great opportunity to pro claim the needs of the gospel in Brazil, and many have responded to that need. The church at Brooklyn made a ^75 *00 monthly pledge. The' West Side congregation in Des Moins has given us $250,00 to complete our

The Candle of Maintained Stewardship^

The Candle of Readiness to Serve

need of $600.00 for our language school this

.sumniex.^ _ .

NEVJS FROM BRAZIL

The church at ^'inapnlis has had a most remark~abie growth, since its conception. THTs'is the .congregation which was started by Jerry

It was a real privilege

the strongest

to preach to one of

mission minded churches in our

Homquist some seven years ago.

I preached

brotherhood.
was the first

The church at Fairfield, 111.,

restoration church to adopt

the New Tcsstament example .for giving. Their faith promise giving, which -is based on II
Corinthians 9, has enabled this congregation
to extend its witness to the far corners of

there last September, and we had 175 in at tendance, The building was filled to capac ity, I read in a recent issue of the "Hori zons" that this congregation has grown to an attendance of 250 in February, This church
is under the rule of their own Brazilian

the v/orld, Thoy are planning on including Brazil in next year's ^pl7,000 mission bud gets This church, as well as ten others are giving serious consideration to our desire
to preach in Brazil,

eldership with one of the elders doing the preaching. The Brazilians will respond tothe gospel, if they can just hear iti
PR^Y FOR OUH-

Do pray with us that the Lord of the harvest will raise up senders, so that we may proceed
to the work of the gospel in Brazil. We now

1, That the Lord will raise up senders from the churches in which we have spoken.

We have several now consioering placiag

us within their missions buQget. 2, We now have |)200,00 toward our needed

have $135 a month pledged support and

^200

toward our needed |1,500 travel fund. Do be bold in your prayers,as well as in your wit ness, We have been given a spirit of power, C ^VL

si,500 travel expense to Brazil.

3, That the Lord of the harvest will raise

up

workers

for

the

overripe

harvest

fields of South iimerica.

THE

CHURCH

by Jerry 0. Hall

The church is a corporate body of individuals^ who have forfeited their wills to accept the will of Christ in their livts Its smallest unit is the one individual^ who has jmde his decision of doing away with his will to allow the will of Christ to superceed it. Its larg est unit is seen in the corporate catholic body of individuals making that decision.
Its primary purpose is that of maintaining itself in the will of Christ's by means of a spiritual growth in the knowledge and understanding of His will. Its secondary purpose log

ically follows the firstj and in fact cannot be stopped, if the first takes place. I speak of the sharing of that will with those who do not know it, that they may submit to it, and
thus become a part of His church.

In this propogation of His will, those who adhere need not to depend upon any means other than their faith in Him. For He has provided the message. For He has supplied the task by His own command; and He has given the promise to accompany the believer in the fulfill
ment of that task.

But what if we, the church, place our confidence in our own plea?
own power? Can we not help but fail?

V/hat if we place our trust

in physical structures and organizations? Vfhat if we attempt to accomplish tl:^t task incur
Therefore, brethren, we must turn back to our study of His will that our trust will
so firm in Him, so that the message will be restored to its intended power.
become

Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace which was given me by the working of his power. To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ and to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery hidden

for ages in God who created all things; that through the church the manifold wis
dom of God might now be made known 'to the principalities and powers in the hea

venly places.

This was according to the eternal purpose which he realized

in

Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and confidence of access through our faith in him. So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you,

which is your glory. For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in ht^aven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the in ner man, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge thkt you my be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who by the pow';;r at 'work within us is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, to him be glory in the church and in Christ J^jSus
to all genurations, for ever and ever, xviuen.

(Ephesians 357-21)
V;Hx^TS DOING?

Becky and I

are

now

engaged

in

language

school at the Toronto Institute of linguis tics. This school will provide us the know-

July 31*^ will find us back in the Lus iidoines area, where ws will be serving as -missionary
speaker and dorm mother for a junior week of
camp.

how for learning Portuguese, once we get to Brazil. Through the science of linguistics,
we will,be tiiugbt ihe, fundamental sounds of

We had hoped _tQ attend a six-weeks cours^_of.

all human languages. It is a very intensive course, taking the whole month of June.
It was attend. necessary for I am us to leave our three

beginning Portuguese at the

Texas but have been unable

University

of

to schedule i t .

Thus wo will have

the month

of august open

boys with my sister so that Becky could also

sure they are not missing us
half as much as we are them.

for dates# If you know of any c^^mps or D.V. B,S. that are needing a missionary speaker,

please contact us
eral Delivery,

Our address will be Gen

Siloam Springs, i^rkansas.

CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH

5515 West 50th Avunue P.O. Box 7A47

iimarillo, Texas 79109

NGN PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTx.Giii P.ilD PiJMIT NO. 392

itMnRILLO, TE}US

MISSIONARY
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JERRI MLL (^^ISSlONARY RECRUITS TO THE

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August 31, 1966

Mervyn Moberly's mother has been
kind enough.to allow us .the use of her upstairs apartment in i.'ebster City, Iowa. Rebecca and the boys are staying there, while I am speak
ing in the churches of Iowa, '/e

NEWS

REPORT

The Toronto School of Linguistics

more than met our best expectations.
Many people, who have never learned

another language, fail to realize the importance of studying about the

production of sounds, which is uni

are praying that we,can fi,:^sh

raising our Jl,''500^.^00, io]^ -travel

funds,
this

versal to all languages.

But the

-ve now have Jl,100.00 toward

end.

Wycliff Bible Translators have more than proven the value of such studies

in learning another language. Rebecca and I received a very encouraging

report from this school^ and we trust

Depending upon the Lord's pro vision has been a great blessing
for Rebecca and me. For we have

that with God's help, we VJill be able to learn the Portuguese language sufficiently enough to communicate
the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

found Him most dependable. Isn't it strange that we, His creatures,

should find it surprising that He

is dependable, when He is doing only

what He has promised!

It has been our great pleasure to

have been in four camps during the

month of-July. I have often felt that of all the scil in 77hich the gospel seed is planted, some of the most
fertile is fomd at Christian service camp. The Lord used us to create

Vie now have J350.00 pledged

monthly support, 'fe are now re

ceiving jlSO.OO a month of this and the rest will start, when we get to Brazil. ^'ith the provision of a rent
free house,
a month.

the Lord has enabled us

much interest for the regions beyond. It is our prayer that God will raise
up workers from among these kids.
7,'e also served as a mis sionary

to live comfortably on the ,;.180,00

';"e have set a departure date of

teacher of Daily Vacation 3ible School during the first two weeks of August. . Vie were able to play both ends'-against the middle by being in Des Moines. with the V/est Side congregation for t h e i r opening exercise and then driye sbbe'' f thirty-five milGS to Ames forv the' closing exercises. v/e rejoice in every opportunity of witnessing for our Lord and Saviour This joy is even greater, when, the--opportunity is among active young
minds of D.V.3.S. students.

November 1st. Vfould you pray that if this is according to the will of
God, .tj.iat He would work circumstances

so.wtha%- this might be possible.

V/e"'. have had the opportunity to
speak in many churches. I feel

that ^J.od has blessed this effort,

and that oi;ir churches will put forth "a greater effort to reach those who
have never heard of Him.

X-VV.

v/e have begun our shots (ouch). The pain of the needle is lessened,
because of the reduced cost of the

6 TEMPORARY ADDRESS: Jerry C. Hall Vo General Delivery, Silome Springs, Arkansas .

NE^JS FROM BRAZIL

vaccination. Brother Dan Mayer, an excellent preacher of the gospel, who ii3 now studying in Des Moines to be a doctor, made arrangements for us
to receive these shots at 25 cents

Jim and Mary Moreland had great influence upon our decision to go to
Brazil. \re have rejoiced with them in the progress of the work of the

Lord.

They have recently left the

apiece. The reduced price made Mommy and Daddy feel much better

work in Hacapa to start a new work.

Jim had developed the leadership in

about it, but Kent, our four year old,

decided that i f he had to take a l l

the five yef^rs he had been in Macapa

so as to make the move possible.

of these shots, he would just as soon

not go to Brazil.

(cont. on pp 2)

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PRAr FOR THE LORD'S ILL lU

The new work is in .Araguania, which," is one of the fastest growing cities : along the Belem-Brasilia'highway. He has already held a very successful tent revival there and has great prospects of establishing a very strong congregation there. Pray for'this..

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1.

THESE MATTERS:
Me, as I-travel.

2.

we now have

;^1100.00 in our

travel fund. , Prayj that we can reach

our needed
I

500 .'OO or that the Lord

will show us andther way.

3. We now have ]350.00 a-month pledged support. Pray that the
churches, which are now consider

The Flying Evangelists of 02iafk ;3ible_ College are raising funds to" Buy Jim
an airplane. Jim is a licensed pilot and could use this very effectively
for the cause of Christ on that new frontier.

ing support for us, will be .guided

in their deliberation. / .

'

4. Pray that we can make departure date of November 1. Vie baven't yet
received our visas. VJe don't

We Tippreciate

expect any trouble, but pray, none the less, that God's will be
done.

The eldership of the 'Jest Side Church of Christ, Charles Greer,

minister, has extended a call to us. Thp call was in response

to our letter of application for the position of foreign evange list. The call was confirmed by more than 90fo of the congregation,
Me will be working in Brazil under the direction of this eldership. Brother Merrill Seehorn, chairman of elders, as well as the rest of the elders, has placed great confidence

in this approach toward missions. If at all possible, they will send a representative to the field at least once every four years to get a first hand impression of the work in
Brazil. Though this chiirch is not able at the present to

C'OTnplirtre"ly^underwr11e our" complete TinanciaT need, they plan

on working toward this end in the years to come. ';;e are confident that a very healthy relationship will come between church and missionary from this approach toward
missions.

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OPPORTUNITY M

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OURSELVES
West Side Church of Christ 53rd and Franklin NON PROFIT ORG. U. S. POSTAGE
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Des Moines, Iowa

50310

Des Moines, Iowa

Permit No. 2747

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to keep the November 2hd departure
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THE NEWSLETTER OF JiR. AND MHS. JEREI HALL (MISSIONARY'RECRUITSVTO THE

COUNTRY OF BRAZIL)

NEWS-fiEPOm
Obtaining our visas more diff iciil't" IJRan we From earlier inquiries we would have to apply

proved to be you, who have made this possible! had anticipated. we were told that tbrought the; , /

We compiled al\,the necessary inform-^ ' PERMANENT ADDRESS:

ation and drove. .1;o Chicago. It' i's ' necessary to majke; these applications
in person.
low^ '50310 ^

Chicago office of Brazilian Consulate."

Jerry G. "Hall
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g/o Bob Weaver; 2626 Pajhae, Des Moines,

NEWS ^ROM BRAZIL
One of Brazil's'greatest problems is

Consulate staf.f discovered that we had-that of its currency, Th cruzerio's n't lived in tl:)e Chicago district for value has dropped from or$800 to ^1 in
a six months p^D^iod of time.

In going dyer::,our papers the

that we would ijaye to apply to the office in New O^'-ieans. I haven't the

Because cr$2i|'00 to $1 at the present of this techniQ^llty, we were informed 1956 time. ' The Bronco government has froz

ability with^a.pen to express the disappointment.and discouragement that

I 'Vondered if i t was not because of poor management on our part that I was

en the cruzerio at this cr$2^00 to $1 in the attempt/to stabalize the econ

omy. Thi's means a'wage freeze much as

Rebecca and I jfelt at this information, forced to use.

the Great Britain government has been

The tragedy of the

whole situation is that prices have

continued to rise 'at. an .uncontrliable

not aware of this technicality. But rate'. Thus the? poor Brazilians'' curr ^'^et I knew tK^Tt T had doi.o 11 I could ency 'does not go as far, and,\ in some to get all the necessary information, cases, has created famine. This' could and this tgclifnlcality was not stated create the atmosphere for a new revolt..
in any of it.

There was nothing for us to do

but to head s.outh for New Orleans. We

Do .pray for the Brazilian government that God may lead in the answer of this

got back home.,...Webster City, Iowa,

from Chicago ^September l6th. We made a Sunday morning engagement in iVIontezuma, Iowa and at 3:00 P. M. we headed South on one, of the craziest drives I
ever made.-.

problem, "that we may lead a quietvlife,

godly and respectful in every way. This is good and acceptable in the
sight of God our Saviour who desire

all men to be saved and to come . to t:..e

knowledge of the truth,"

I Tiin;"2:2-3

Rebecca and I were undulely

nervious about the" ervieW' with* the

Consulate in New Orleans, but our papers were found to be in order, and we had
our precious visas 24 hours later.
OS

The last two weeks in September I spent at the National Missionary Conve
ntion in Ft. Wayne-and a Faith Promise

Rally sponsored" by the Christian Churcl-.

at Fairfield,' Illinois.
a

It has been
LORD

busy month in which we have traveled

4,000 niiles, .
Please notice the the financial

0} Creatton

statement with care. We now have $400 a iponth pledged support. Although we are now only receiving |24l.00 of this amoimt, we expect the rest to begin in
N ovember.

As things look now, we will be able

-o| Ae Church

CHLixiCHIliS ^LmOkiD SUi'fORT

-Libert Pike Christian Church, Ft. Smith, Ark.

^300d-

Tirst Christian Church, Eldon, Iowa Madison Church of Christ, Brooklyn, Iowa
Christian Church Mt. Pleasant, Mo. Total of churches pledged '

35.00 750O
20.00
4i)l60.00

INDIVIDUAL PLEDGED SUPPORT _

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. " si>10.00 5.^00 16.00. 50.00
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.Sid.-All5bury, Cartervilie^ Edi^in Beem, Boynton, Oklahoma JJayaae.-Sh^p,- Lebanon, Missouri" Mrs. Bill Temple, Allerton, lovja

Total for individuai support

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Total pledged support

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Church pledged support

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^2^1.00

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:--SPEGIAL GIVING

Madison Church of Christ, Brooklyi;)., Iox\ra . Christian Church, Mt. Pleasant, Ho. D.V.B.S.. offering

'I57*00 1500

First CJnristian Church, J^iemphis, Missouri

Church of Christ, Montezuma, Iov\'a

^6.70
70.00

West Side Church of Christ, Des Molnes, la. D.V.B.S. Bristow Bible Camp, Bristow, Iowa Christia.n Church, Keos^qua, la. Church of Christ, Bayard, Iowa ,

127.60 57*56 103.66 61.25

Christian Chiirch, Powersville, Missouri 2500 Goldle Hatfield, Powersvllle, 'Missouri 10.00 LeRoy Lansford, Allentofjn, lovja , 27.50 Elizabeth Cain, Siloam Springs, Arkansas 50.00 Church of Christ, Bristoxi, Iowa' 20.00 Rising Sun Church of Christ, Des Molnes, Iowa 20.00 Cookson Hills Christian Church, Siloam Springs, Arkansas 20.00" Union Sunday School, Siloam Springs, Arkansas 100.00 ChUrchrof'Ghyisbv^iVJebster City, Iowa 17.00

Mary and Tim Minner, Montezuma', Iowa

An individual, Siloam .springs, Arkansas

36.50
100.00

-Special giving total Pldged Total

Total Income

^96^-77 2^1.00
-1^1205.71

EXPENDITURES

Money placed in travel fund' Typewriter

Tape recorder Travel expenses for September

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-^^360..00 7^.00
' 100.00 230.00

Living expenses
Total

276.71
4^1045.71 .

Balance onhand
Amount now in travel fund

160.00
^1,500.30

Please send all contributions to our forwarding agent: Bob Weaver,

2626 Payne, Des Molnes, Iowa '50310

Southern Brazil Christian Hission.

Make all checks payable to the

West Side Church of Christ'

53rd and Franklin Des Molnes, Iowa 50310. ^

NON PROFIT ORG.

U.. S. POSTAGE PAID Des Molnes, loxm
Permit No. 27^7

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W.a SuU a arcIt of dliriil

1903 53RD Phone 255-8668
DES MOINES, IOWA 50310

CHARLES GREEK, MINISTER 1907 5 3RD (PARSONAGE)

PHONE 255 - 6771

FROM THE DESK OF JERRY C.. HALL

Dear Supporters:

I apologize for the use of a mimeographed letter, but

because of the press for time, we find i t a necessity. As you read in oiir regular newsletter, we will be leaving for Brazil

November 2nd from Des Moines and expect to be there twenty-^hree

hours later. There are several items of business, I need to bring to yotir attention before making our departure.

For the protection of individual donors, we have thought it wise to incorporate. This will give individual donors the right to claim such gifts as deductbable income. I realize that such donations are made with ''t'. the desire to further the
cause of Christ and not to ease one's tax load. But when?the government offers this privilege, it would be unwise not to

take advantage of it. But to take advantage of this, you must make your checks payable to the incorporation, SOUTHERN BRAZIL CHRISTIAN MISSION, and NOT to Jlerry Hall. We are not going under any organization and this incorpor ation should not be confused with a mission organization. We are going to Brazil under the sponsorship of the West Side Church of Christ of Des Moines, Iowa, and will be working under the oversight of its eldership. The incorporation is simply to ofomply
with the laws of the land.

All contributions should be sent to our forwarding agent:

Bob Weaver

2626 Payne
Des Moines, Iowa
hearing from him in the futiare. W
50310

Bob is a deacon in the West Side congregation.

sent directly to us in Brazil.

Xou will be

contribution should be

This will only delay our

receiving the funds for they will have to be sent to Brother Weaver to be banked for us in the states.

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Several of our pledged supporters have^for our departure

to begin their support. If at all possible, we would greatly appreciate this support beginning before our departure of November
1st.

It would be a great aid to us in transferring funds to Brazil if oui support could be received within the first week of each month. We can assure you that with our full pledged support coming in, we will have an adequate income to enable us to preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
We do thank our God for you. He has made it possible for us to go to Brazil because of your sacrifice. May He richly
bless you all.

Yours in Christ,

ferazll