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JIM AiH) iLRLINE PiiERIS

MISSIONARIES TO SOUTH- AFRICA

Vol. 5, No. 1,

"CHRIST -

THE GOOD HOPE OF THE CAPE"

May, 1971.

The two disciples felt a burning in their hearts from the moment the Stranger had begun walking with them down the Emmaus Road, Like a bolt of lightning (^d's master plan hit:, home, and then they knew! He had risen! He shattered the heavy gloom which had hung over the past few days, and broke its spell forever. We shared together several moments of quietness and Bible reading last Sunday, Easter Sunday morning. The sun edging over the mountains was a climax to our little family service. It was burning in our hearts the same urgency which set those two disciples running back to Jerusalem to tell the news. They didn't v/ait-until the next synagogue meeting to let i t be known, but v;ere compelled to tell i t at. once,

MINISTER'S WEEK, MiiRCE ^1, - APRIL dA coupe of Monday nights ago a tired two-car caravan arrived in Cape Town after a thirty-two hour drive from Port Shepstone, A1 Zimmerman's car was in the lead but he was held to a snail's pace at times for the sake of my W busload of African ministers, A driving rain had washed away the road from Port Elizabeth and sent us 180 miles out of our way,We had almost hit a caw (-we did-hit several-pot-holes) in the dar3aiess, -We
crawled over foggy mountain passes. er for a week of teaching. Bat i t was so worthv/hile.

Each year the African ministers throughout the Republic come togeth
The missionaries teach classes and hold pan
for dis els; the afternoons are turned over to the Africans themselves

cussion groups, I held a class on "How To Understand The Bible", The first Minister's week was in Kimberley a year ago. These ministers each have several churches to a circuit. They all need much more training,

though many of them have been to the training school at- Umzumbe (Port Shepstone) for the minister's course. The problem is that the ministers
do not studythey are t"oo busy vd.th their circuits. Classes at a week such as this are designed to meet problems in the churches and to combat ignorance among the people,
CROW FOUNTAIN

We don't fully understand the significance of it, but that is the l i t eral meaning of the Afrikaans name for the town Kraaifontein, We moved from our apartment in Bellville at the end of February into a rented three bedroom house further out in Cape Town. It is about six miles further

from the church hall, as the "kraai" flies.

Builders are rapidly transforming this sleepy little place into an

other sprawling suburb of Cape Toto. It looks like the world over is t^-

en up with building booms, an increasing challenge to those who want to

broadcast their faith in the risen Saviour.

We have been blessed in finding such an improvement in housing at no extra charge, and some area where a two-year-old ball-of-fire can play.
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iiELINE WAS ORDERED TO KEEP off her feet during the house move. After
an operation just a few days earlier, things seem to be running veryw^ as we look forward to the birth of our second child, somewhere toward -ttie

end of August, We are grateful to otir co-workers for their help in pack

ing and moving,

MARK'S LETTER

Dear Friends,

Hello! I am a big boy now, so I can talk. I especially like to say whatever Mommy and Daddy say. They tell me I'm a parrot. What's-that? Ev
ery night I say my own prayers Daddy just helps me. I thank the Lord for all my friends.

My Daddy went away for a while.

Mommy and I went to Uncle Darrelacd.

Auntie Anne (Stanley) and Nicky! Nicky is a doggie and we had lots cf fun playing. I went on a "prip" just like Daddy. I liked it, 'cause eveiytime I went, I kissed Mommy and Auntie imne bye-bye. So I went on lots Q?'pri.p^' oh my tricycle that day. Now we are back home and Marky is in his own
room.

Every Sunday we go to church. We sing and say "hello" and pray. I don't know all the words yet, but I like to sing anyway. We sang "When the Roll is called up Yonder" this time ajid I sang so loud I couldn't hear anybody else. I don't know why, but /.untie Gladys wasn't singing a
lot5 she was laughing. Bat I told Mommy I sing nice! Guess what! We are going to get a baby. It's going to sleep in my room and I'm goingtobeihe big "brudda," Bye Bye, Marky
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Our work at Northem Suburbs church in Bellville is holding just about steady. We are so happy at the continuing interest shown by some

families we have met. This coming month marks the fifth anniversary
the congregation, and we believe the Lord has blessed us in
years we have worked there.

of

the

three

Thank you for remembering us in prayer and with your gifts for our support and evangelistic work. We look forward to seeing so many of you personally when we come home on furlough next year.
FORWiJlDING AGENT
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Mr. A. L. Parris

35671 Crestview Drive Yucaipa, California, 92399

Jim. Parris family 55 Drostdy Street Kraaifontein, Cape

South Africa

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MISdlONiiHIES-TO SOUTE iL^RICA

Vol. 5, No, 2

"CHRIST THE GOOD HOPE OF THE CxJ'E"

November, 1971.

AS SPRING BEGINS HERE IN THE SOUTHERN HHvilSPHERE,V/E iJlE THiJ^IOUL FOR NE'vV SIGNS OF LIFE, iiND FOR NEW LIFE! Joel lixthxoc was born into the Jarris

family on August 28th. He weighed 6 lbs. 5 Oz., and has his daddy's dark hair. Of course we'll keep him. Big Brother Mark 6 years old) says we
are a "fammy" now. The Lord has allowed us to be on the receiving end
an
of so much of His Goodness.

JIM'S TRIP TO RHODESIA IN JUNE

was a fine experience

and very much

eyeopener. There was thrilling fellowship with the Central African team of missionaries. This trip's purpose was mainly for a first-hand look at the Christian College in Salisbury, presently under the leadership of35r,
Pruett and other missionaries servingas faculty. The Bible College hopes

to draw from South Africa as well, as students from here will still be fairly elose to the school and in a better position to serve in theirhomeland when they return, Vi/hile in Rhodesia,it was a personal encouragement to visit and share in the European (white) work which has recently been growing in several places, Jim preached for the Yfeterfalls congregation in Salisbury, where there are ralatives of some of our members in Bellville. Other highlights v/ere the missions at Chidamoyo, Mashoko, and Hip po Valley, There were so many who were willing to provide homes, meals
and earnest talk of their involvement in their work. They brought, up

many questions

about the South iifrican work, so it was an opportune time

for encouraging each other all the way around!

THE VOTBERG CHURCH IN THE SOUTHERt^ SUBURBS has been without.^ a minister since the Don Hart family returned to the States in July, We have taken a share in the preaching until they can find a prer-cher. We do two ser
vices on Sunday nights now, one in Bfellville, then down to Wynberg, twenty-five miles removed. We arrive just after the song service. One

calling day in the

Sunday night after

week is also now

most of the

devoted to the Wynberg area.

home

Last

people had gone

from church, a

is"experiencing
fanned to
t,f> ta'ko

British girl, Cathy, came expressing her need to accept Christ and was baptized that night with just a few looking on. Her boy friend, Bryan,

some spiritual renewal himself.

These need our pr..,yer,

He seemed to

be plum

meting downhill with all his problems and close to the "point"of no return", v/hen the tiny spark of his early commitment rekindled, then
a blaze. as do all who are learning
firnt f^tepo, one at a time, by faith.

THE WOMEN SIIE. IN SILENCE

in our Cape Bible Seminary classes,

following

the general custom among the colored people of the Cape. You*d never guess they could get so much said outside of class* The lessons we run out for
the students who come in the evenings have uses we had never dreamed ahout:. Two of the women have recently filled me in. Sarah has "been a do mestic servant in the suburb of Thornton for thirteen years, living in with the white family. She regularly goes over the material with the teen

agers in that home, who happen to be Roman Catholic.

"The Church in the Bible" i t brings in much that

Since the class is

It must be

is new and unftimiliar

to them, and gives Sarah the opportunity

ies of meetings in the Observatory Church.
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for good teaching.

so, for some members of her '^family" came along with her twice to a ser
Lily goes frequently to her home which is over 150 miles away. She takes
dis

the lessons to the Moravian preacher in her village, has a running

cussion of scriptural principles with him,

any other woman!

and challenges
train

him to

find

fault with them. He has no direct ansvirerwhich is very good for Lily or

The goal of these classes is to

Christians who
please,

will teach others, and this they are doing. that spiritual fruit may come of it.

Pray about this,

ONE OF OUR P:jklILIES AT NORTHERN SUBURBS (Bellville European work) un consciously led a family back to Christ recently. The result is that
both fajnilies are blessed. A certain brother-in-law had drifted from

Christ"and the church. iJLcohol becsjne the new ffod,: tyrannical and de structive. But the Christian testimony of- the other frinily was to reach into the miserably twisted life of the father through the simple act of

singing children's choruses

around the house

or in the cr\r.

A lonely,

defeated man at rock bottom,

his life deeply touchednow humming along

trying to recall words for the songs he'd never quite forgotten. . But this time he could look up5 it was, in fact, the.direction he could look, /ind once more he had hopeand a miracle happened. A faith began again to walk, a home took on a new shine. Others sav/ the difference it made, and
there was even a difference in the ones v/ho saw the difference, .'Jid the

birthplace of the miracle which opened the doors to this new quality of life was a home in whLdi the unashamed expression of a family's experience of God, through singing, was aji everyday fact. . IT'S CONFERENCE TliViE AGrxJLN. The.African and Colored people,who form the

vast majority of Christians in South Africa,

are meeting

this month in

Port Elizabeth, It is a convention of preaching, teaching,and fellowship

nationwide,

Jim will be making the five hundred Biile trip -up the coast

with a busload of Cape Town passengers. We are fully expectingihis meet ing to be a milestone in the progress of the churches in this land.

THERE IS EVIDEI^ICE OF RENEW.!,

REVIV.Jj -JiL .JIOUND US.

This is clearly

the result of God Himself working in so many lives. We thank you for your support in dollars, for joining with us in the basic task of sharing His Word in Soij^bh Africa. Your prayer, of which we are always conscious, has been effective! We continue to rely on it, and urge upon you the needs listed in this letter for prayer.

We do look forward

to seeing you again in 1972,

and meanwhile, "...let

this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,,." In His Service, Jim, Arline, Mark and Joel
OUR ;j)DEESSs .

Jim Parris family

FORWiiRDING AGENT s

Kraaifontein, Cape
South itfrxoa

55 Drostdy Street

55671 Crestview Drive

Yucaipa, Cal. 92399

Parris